Open AccessSynchronisation of linear high‐order multi‐agent systems: an internal model approach
Author(s) -
Xiang Ji,
Li Yanjun,
Wei Wei
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
iet control theory and applications
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.059
H-Index - 108
eISSN - 1751-8652
pISSN - 1751-8644
DOI - 10.1049/iet-cta.2013.0074
Subject(s) - internal model , control theory (sociology) , order (exchange) , computer science , multi agent system , control engineering , engineering , control (management) , artificial intelligence , business , finance
This study investigates the synchronisation problem of identical linear high‐order multi‐agent systems. A new dynamical controller is constructed by the internal model approach, which does not depend on the controller state information of neighbouring agents, but only on the weighted sum of relative output errors and the local measured output. The proposed controller can work for some classes of agents having unstable modes and always work well for the agents having all its eigenvalues in the closed left‐half complex plane. A simulation example illustrates the efficacy of the analytic results.