Open AccessMulti‐agent containment control with input saturation on switching topologies
Author(s) -
Su Housheng,
Chen Michael Z. Q.
Publication year - 2015
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.2014.0393
Subject(s) - control theory (sociology) , network topology , containment (computer programming) , saturation (graph theory) , computer science , feedback control , multi agent system , control (management) , output feedback , state (computer science) , control engineering , engineering , mathematics , algorithm , artificial intelligence , combinatorics , programming language , operating system
This study aims to investigate containment control of linear multi‐agent systems with input saturation on switching topologies. For such a multi‐agent system, both state feedback and output feedback containment control protocols are proposed via a novel low‐gain feedback approach. Consequently, the authors show that, under the assumption that the switching networks are jointly connected, semi‐global state feedback and output feedback containment control of the multi‐agent system can be attained. The effectiveness of the proposed algorithms is illustrated via numerical examples.