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Distributed input observer‐based consensus for the leader‐following multi‐agent systems
Author(s) -
Guo Wanli,
Zou Min,
Li Mengxia
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
asian journal of control
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.769
H-Index - 53
eISSN - 1934-6093
pISSN - 1561-8625
DOI - 10.1002/asjc.2134
Subject(s) - protocol (science) , observer (physics) , multi agent system , consensus , computer science , control theory (sociology) , distributed computing , order (exchange) , artificial intelligence , control (management) , economics , medicine , physics , alternative medicine , finance , pathology , quantum mechanics
This paper focuses on the consensus problem for leader‐following second‐order multi‐agent systems. It is evident that knowledge of the leader's input will critically help a follower to track the leader. But under certain environments, only a fraction of followers could obtain the leader's input information. In order to reach consensus expeditiously and effectively, a novel input observers based protocol is built for each follower. Under this protocol, sufficient conditions for the consensus are proposed analytically. Finally, the validity of the theoretical analysis is illustrated by simulation examples.