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Fully Distributed Flocking with a Moving Leader for Lagrange Networks with Parametric Uncertainties
This paper addresses the leader-follower flocking problem with a moving
leader for networked Lagrange systems with parametric uncertainties under a
proximity graph. Here a group of followers move cohesively with the moving
leader to maintain connectivity and avoid collisions for all time and also
eventually achieve velocity matching. In the proximity graph, the neighbor
relationship is defined according to the relative distance between each pair of
agents. Each follower is able to obtain information from only the neighbors in
its proximity, involving only local interaction. We consider two cases: i) the
leader moves with a constant velocity, and ii) the leader moves with a varying
velocity. In the first case, a distributed continuous adaptive control
algorithm accounting for unknown parameters is proposed in combination with a
distributed continuous estimator for each follower. In the second case, a
distributed discontinuous adaptive control algorithm and estimator are
proposed. Then the algorithm is extended to be fully distributed with the
introduction of gain adaptation laws. In all proposed algorithms, only one-hop
neighbors' information (e.g., the relative position and velocity measurements
between the neighbors and the absolute position and velocity measurements) is
required, and flocking is achieved as long as the connectivity and collision
avoidance are ensured at the initial time and the control gains are designed
properly. Numerical simulations are presented to illustrate the theoretical
results
On the Synchronization of Second-Order Nonlinear Systems with Communication Constraints
This paper studies the synchronization problem of second-order nonlinear
multi-agent systems with intermittent communication in the presence of
irregular communication delays and possible information loss. The control
objective is to steer all systems' positions to a common position with a
prescribed desired velocity available to only some leaders. Based on the
small-gain framework, we propose a synchronization scheme relying on an
intermittent information exchange protocol in the presence of time delays and
possible packet dropout. We show that our control objectives are achieved with
a simple selection of the control gains provided that the directed graph,
describing the interconnection between all systems (or agents), contains a
spanning tree. The example of Euler-Lagrange systems is considered to
illustrate the application and effectiveness of the proposed approach.Comment: 21 pages, 8 figures. Submitted for journal publicatio
Fixed-time consensus of multiple double-integrator systems under directed topologies: A motion-planning approach
This paper investigates the fixed-time consensus problem under directed
topologies. By using a motion-planning approach, a class of distributed
fixed-time algorithms are developed for a multi-agent system with
double-integrator dynamics. In the context of the fixed-time consensus, we
focus on both directed fixed and switching topologies. Under the directed fixed
topology, a novel class of distributed algorithms are designed, which guarantee
the consensus of the multi-agent system with a fixed settling time if the
topology has a directed spanning tree. Under the directed periodically
switching topologies, the fixedtime consensus is solved via the proposed
algorithms if the topologies jointly have a directed spanning tree. In
particular, the fixed settling time can be off-line pre-assigned according to
task requirements. Compared with the existing results, to our best knowledge,
it is the first time to solve the fixed-time consensus problem for
double-integrator systems under directed topologies. Finally, a numerical
example is given to illustrate the effectiveness of the analytical results
Multi-Agent Distributed Coordination Control: Developments and Directions
In this paper, the recent developments on distributed coordination control,
especially the consensus and formation control, are summarized with the graph
theory playing a central role, in order to present a cohesive overview of the
multi-agent distributed coordination control, together with brief reviews of
some closely related issues including rendezvous/alignment, swarming/flocking
and containment control.In terms of the consensus problem, the recent results
on consensus for the agents with different dynamics from first-order,
second-order to high-order linear and nonlinear dynamics, under different
communication conditions, such as cases with/without switching communication
topology and varying time-delays, are reviewed, in which the algebraic graph
theory is very useful in the protocol designs, stability proofs and converging
analysis. In terms of the formation control problem, after reviewing the
results of the algebraic graph theory employed in the formation control, we
mainly pay attention to the developments of the rigid and persistent graphs.
With the notions of rigidity and persistence, the formation transformation,
splitting and reconstruction can be completed, and consequently the range-based
formation control laws are designed with the least required information in
order to maintain a formation rigid/persistent. Afterwards, the recent results
on rendezvous/alignment, swarming/flocking and containment control, which are
very closely related to consensus and formation control, are briefly
introduced, in order to present an integrated view of the graph theory used in
the coordination control problem. Finally, towards the practical applications,
some directions possibly deserving investigation in coordination control are
raised as well.Comment: 28 pages, 8 figure
Time-varying formation tracking of multiple manipulators via distributed finite-time control
Comparing with traditional fixed formation for a group of dynamical systems,
time-varying formation can produce the following benefits: i) covering the
greater part of complex environments; ii) collision avoidance. This paper
studies the time-varying formation tracking for multiple manipulator systems
(MMSs) under fixed and switching directed graphs with a dynamic leader, whose
acceleration cannot change too fast. An explicit mathematical formulation of
time-varying formation is developed based on the related practical
applications. A class of extended inverse dynamics control algorithms combining
with distributed sliding-mode estimators are developed to address the
aforementioned problem. By invoking finite-time stability arguments, several
novel criteria (including sufficient criteria, necessary and sufficient
criteria) for global finite-time stability of MMSs are established. Finally,
numerical experiments are presented to verify the effectiveness of the
theoretical results
Consensus tracking in multi agent system with nonlinear and non identical dynamics via event driven sliding modes
In this work, leader follower consensus objective has been addressed with the
synthesis of an event based controller utilizing sliding mode robust control.
The schema has been partitioned into two parts viz. finite time consensus
problem and event triggered control mechanism. A nonlinear multi agent system
with non identical dynamics has been put forward to illustrate the robust
capabilities of the proposed control. The first part incorporates matching of
states of the followers with those of the leader via consensus tracking
algorithm. In the subsequent part, an event triggered rule is devised to save
computational power and restrict periodic updating of the controller involved
while ensuring desired closed loop performance of the system. Switching of the
event based controller is achieved via sliding mode control. Advantage of using
switched controller like sliding mode is that it retains its inherent
robustness as well as event triggering approach aids in saving energy
expenditure. Efficacy of the proposed scheme is confirmed via numerical
simulations.Comment: preprint, "IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
Containment Control of Second-order Multi-agent Systems Under Directed Graphs and Communication Constraints
The distributed coordination problem of multi-agent systems is addressed in
this paper under the assumption of intermittent communication between agents in
the presence of time-varying communication delays. Specifically, we consider
the containment control problem of second-order multi-agent systems with
multiple dynamic leaders under a directed interconnection graph topology. Also,
communication between agents is performed only at some discrete instants of
time in the presence of irregular communication delays and packet dropout.
First, we present distributed control algorithms for double integrator dynamics
in the full and partial state feedback cases. Then, we propose a method to
extend our results to second-order systems with locally Lipschitz nonlinear
dynamics. In both cases, we show that the proposed approach leads to our
control objectives under sufficient conditions relating the characteristics of
the communication process and the control gains. We also show that our approach
can be applied to solve various similar coordination problems in multi-agent
systems under the same communication constraints. The effectiveness of the
proposed control schemes is illustrated through some examples and numerical
simulations.Comment: Modified version. Paper submitted for publicatio
Dynamic Feedback for Consensus of Networked Lagrangian Systems
This paper investigates the consensus problem of multiple uncertain
Lagrangian systems. Due to the discontinuity resulted from the switching
topology, achieving consensus in the context of uncertain Lagrangian systems is
challenging. We propose a new adaptive controller based on dynamic feedback to
resolve this problem and additionally propose a new analysis tool for
rigorously demonstrating the stability and convergence of the networked
systems. The new introduced analysis tool is referred to as uniform
integral-L_p stability, which is motivated for addressing integral-input-output
properties of linear time-varying systems. It is then shown that the consensus
errors between the systems converge to zero so long as the union of the graphs
contains a directed spanning tree. It is also shown that the proposed
controller enjoys the robustness with respect to constant communication delays.
The performance of the proposed adaptive controllers is shown by numerical
simulations.Comment: 7 pages, 8 figures, submitted to IEEE Transactions on Automatic
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A New Encounter Between Leader-Follower Tracking and Observer-Based Control: Towards Enhancing Robustness against Disturbances
This paper studies robust tracking control for a leader-follower multi-agent
system (MAS) subject to disturbances. A challenging problem is considered here,
which differs from those in the literature in two aspects. First, we consider
the case when all the leader and follower agents are affected by disturbances,
while the existing studies assume only the followers to suffer disturbances.
Second, we assume the disturbances to be bounded only in rates of change rather
than magnitude as in the literature. To address this new problem, we propose a
novel observer-based distributed tracking control design. As a distinguishing
feature, the followers can cooperatively estimate the disturbance affecting the
leader to adjust their maneuvers accordingly, which is enabled by the design of
the first-of-its-kind distributed disturbance observers. We build specific
tracking control approaches for both first- and second-order MASs and prove
that they can lead to bounded-error tracking, despite the challenges due to the
relaxed assumptions about disturbances. We further perform simulation to
validate the proposed approaches
Distributed Consensus for Multiple Lagrangian Systems with Parametric Uncertainties and External Disturbances Under Directed Graphs
In this paper, we study the leaderless consensus problem for multiple
Lagrangian systems in the presence of parametric uncertainties and external
disturbances under directed graphs. For achieving asymptotic behavior, a robust
continuous term with adaptive varying gains is added to alleviate the effects
of the external disturbances with unknown bounds. In the case of a fixed
directed graph, by introducing an integrate term in the auxiliary variable
design, the final consensus equilibrium can be explicitly derived. We show that
the agents achieve weighted average consensus, where the final equilibrium is
dependent on three factors, namely, the interactive topology, the initial
positions of the agents, and the control gains of the proposed control
algorithm. In the case of switching directed graphs, a model reference adaptive
consensus based algorithm is proposed such that the agents achieve leaderless
consensus if the infinite sequence of switching graphs is uniformly jointly
connected. Motivated by the fact that the relative velocity information is
difficult to obtain accurately, we further propose a leaderless consensus
algorithm with gain adaptation for multiple Lagrangian systems without using
neighbors' velocity information. We also propose a model reference adaptive
consensus based algorithm without using neighbors' velocity information for
switching directed graphs. The proposed algorithms are distributed in the sense
of using local information from its neighbors and using no comment control
gains. Numerical simulations are performed to show the effectiveness of the
proposed algorithms.Comment: 15 pages, 5 figure
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