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Cooperative Global Robust Output Regulation for a Class of Nonlinear Multi-Agent Systems by Distributed Event-Triggered Control
This paper studies the event-triggered cooperative global robust output
regulation problem for a class of nonlinear multi-agent systems via a
distributed internal model design. We show that our problem can be solved
practically in the sense that the ultimate bound of the tracking error can be
made arbitrarily small by adjusting a design parameter in the proposed
event-triggered mechanism. Our result offers a few new features. First, our
control law is robust against both external disturbances and parameter
uncertainties, which are allowed to belong to some arbitrarily large prescribed
compact sets. Second, the nonlinear functions in our system do not need to
satisfy the global Lipchitz condition. Thus our systems are general enough to
include some benchmark nonlinear systems that cannot be handled by existing
approaches. Finally, our control law is a specific distributed output-based
event-triggered control law, which lends itself to a direct digital
implementation.Comment: This paper has been submitted to a journal on July 17, 201