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    Event-based H∞ consensus control of multi-agent systems with relative output feedback: The finite-horizon case

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    In this technical note, the H∞ consensus control problem is investigated over a finite horizon for general discrete time-varying multi-agent systems subject to energy-bounded external disturbances. A decentralized estimation-based output feedback control protocol is put forward via the relative output measurements. A novel event-based mechanism is proposed for each intelligent agent to utilize the available information in order to decide when to broadcast messages and update control input. The aim of the problem addressed is to co-design the time-varying controller and estimator parameters such that the controlled multi-agent systems achieve consensus with a disturbance attenuation level γ over a finite horizon [0,T]. A constrained recursive Riccati difference equation approach is developed to derive the sufficient conditions under which the H∞ consensus performance is guaranteed in the framework of event-based scheme. Furthermore, the desired controller and estimator parameters can be iteratively computed by resorting to the Moore-Penrose pseudo inverse. Finally, the effectiveness of the developed event-based H∞ consensus control strategy is demonstrated in the numerical simulation

    A Review of Consensus-based Multi-agent UAV Applications

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    In this paper, a review of distributed control for multi-agent systems is proposed, focusing on consensus-based applications. Both rotary-wing and fixed-wing Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are considered. On one side, methodologies and implementations based on collision and obstacle avoidance through consensus are analyzed for multirotor UAVs. On the other hand, a target tracking through consensus is considered for fixed-wing UAVs. This novel approach to classify the literature could help researchers to assess the outcomes achieved in these two directions in view of potential practical implementations of consensus-based methodologies

    An Overview of Recent Progress in the Study of Distributed Multi-agent Coordination

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    This article reviews some main results and progress in distributed multi-agent coordination, focusing on papers published in major control systems and robotics journals since 2006. Distributed coordination of multiple vehicles, including unmanned aerial vehicles, unmanned ground vehicles and unmanned underwater vehicles, has been a very active research subject studied extensively by the systems and control community. The recent results in this area are categorized into several directions, such as consensus, formation control, optimization, task assignment, and estimation. After the review, a short discussion section is included to summarize the existing research and to propose several promising research directions along with some open problems that are deemed important for further investigations

    Containment Control of Multi-Agent Systems with Dynamic Leaders Based on a PInPI^n-Type Approach

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    This paper studies the containment control problem of multi-agent systems with multiple dynamic leaders in both the discrete-time domain and the continuous-time domain. The leaders' motions are described by (n−1)(n-1)-order polynomial trajectories. This setting makes practical sense because given some critical points, the leaders' trajectories are usually planned by the polynomial interpolations. In order to drive all followers into the convex hull spanned by the leaders, a PInPI^n-type (PP and II are short for {\it Proportion} and {\it Integration}, respectively; InI^n implies that the algorithm includes high-order integral terms) containment algorithm is proposed. It is theoretically proved that the PInPI^n-type containment algorithm is able to solve the containment problem of multi-agent systems where the followers are described by any order integral dynamics. Compared with the previous results on the multi-agent systems with dynamic leaders, the distinguished features of this paper are that: (1) the containment problem is studied not only in the continuous-time domain but also in the discrete-time domain while most existing results only work in the continuous-time domain; (2) to deal with the leaders with the (n−1)(n-1)-order polynomial trajectories, existing results require the follower's dynamics to be nn-order integral while the followers considered in this paper can be described by any-order integral; and (3) the "sign" function is not employed in the proposed algorithm, which avoids the chattering phenomenon. Furthermore, in order to illustrate the practical value of the proposed approach, an application, the containment control of multiple mobile robots is studied. Finally, two simulation examples are given to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm
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