Distributed Control for Uncertain Multiagent Systems With the Powers of Positive-Odd Numbers: A Low-Complexity Design Approach

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Lv, Maolong; Wang, Ning
• 署名单位: Air Force Engineering University
• 刊物名称: IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AUTOMATIC CONTROL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0018-9286
• DOI: 10.1109/TAC.2023.3266986
• 发表日期: 2024
• 页码: 434-441
• 关键词: Vehicle dynamics; steady-state; Multi-agent systems; transient analysis; STANDARDS; DYNAMICS; decentralized control; low-complexity control; multiagent systems; positive odd powers

摘要

This work shows that low-complexity prescribed performance control (PPC) can be used to realize leader-following consensus for uncertain second-order multiagent systems (MASs) with the powers of positive odd numbers, i.e., agents whose dynamics are a chain of integrators with positive odd powers. Low-complexity PPC is a control methodology whose strongest feature is its adaptation-free structural simplicity: uncertainty can be handled without estimation of unknown parameters nor approximation structures (neural networks, fuzzy logic systems, etc.) being involved in the control design. While the state of the art has focused on strict- and pure-feedback MASs, i.e., dynamics including a chain of integrators with powers equal to one: in this note, we show that the same low-complexity can be retained for more general integrator dynamics (with positive-odd-integer powers). To this purpose, several new technical tools are proposed to handle the challenges caused by the presence of high powers in the integrators both in leader and follower agents. A dynamical boiler-turbine units system is used to validate the effectiveness of the theoretical findings.