Containment control with multiple leaders for nonlinear multi-agent systems with unstabilizable linearizations

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Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)43-50
Number of pages8
Journal / PublicationNeurocomputing
Volume380
Online published4 Nov 2019
Publication statusPublished - 7 Mar 2020

Abstract

In this paper, we study the distributed containment control problem with multiple leaders for nonlinear multi-agent systems (MASs) with unstabilizable linearizations under the directed topology. A novel distributed control design approach is developed to simultaneously deal with the unstabilizable linearizations and nonlinear interactions among agents. The designed controller can guarantee that the followers’ outputs will eventually converge to a limit point in the convex hull spanned by the leaders’ outputs while all the states of the closed-loop system remain bounded. Finally, a mechanical system example is presented to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed control scheme.

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  • Containment control, Directed topology, Nonlinear systems