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Distributed output regulation of leader–follower multi‐agent systems
Author(s) -
Hong Yiguang,
Wang Xiaoli,
Jiang ZhongPing
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
international journal of robust and nonlinear control
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.361
H-Index - 106
eISSN - 1099-1239
pISSN - 1049-8923
DOI - 10.1002/rnc.1814
Subject(s) - context (archaeology) , control theory (sociology) , computer science , multi agent system , decentralised system , internal model , network topology , control (management) , interconnection , work (physics) , distributed computing , extension (predicate logic) , output feedback , control engineering , topology (electrical circuits) , engineering , artificial intelligence , computer network , mechanical engineering , paleontology , biology , programming language , electrical engineering
SUMMARY In this paper, distributed leader–follower control algorithms are presented for linear multi‐agent systems based on output regulation theory and internal model principle. By treating a leader to be followed as an exosystem, the proposed framework can be used to generalize existing multi‐agent coordination solutions to allow the identical agents to track an active leader with different dynamics and unmeasurable variables. Moreover, the obtained results for multi‐agent coordination control are an extension of previous work on centralized and decentralized output regulation to a distributed control context. Necessary and sufficient conditions for the distributed output regulation problem are given. Finally, distributed output regulation of some classes of multi‐agent systems with switching interconnection topologies are discussed via both static and dynamic feedback. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.