An Overview of Recent Advances in Fixed-Time Cooperative Control of Multiagent Systems

By Zongyu Zuo, Qing-Long Han, Boda Ning, Xiaohua Ge, Xianming Zhang. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 2018

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Fixed-time cooperative control is currently a hot research topic in multiagent systems since it can provide a guaranteed settling time, which does not depend on initial conditions. Compared with asymptotic cooperative control algorithms, fixed-time cooperative control algorithms can achieve better closed-loop performance and disturbance rejection properties. Different from finite-time control, fixed-time cooperative control produces the faster rate of convergence and provides an explicit estimation of the settling time independent of initial conditions, which is desirable for multiagent systems. This paper aims at presenting an overview of recent advances in fixed-time cooperative control of multiagent systems. Some fundamental concepts about finite- and fixed-time stability and stabilization are first recalled with insight understanding. Then, recent results in finite- and fixed-time cooperative control are reviewed in detail and categorized according to different agent dynamics. Finally, this paper raises several challenging issues that need to be addressed in the near future.

Subfields: Computational Theory and Mathematics, Computer Networks and Communications, Control and Systems Engineering

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3. Xiaohua Ge
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In Control and Systems Engineering

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2. Xianming Zhang
3. Xiaohua Ge
4. Lei Ding
5. Derui Ding
6. Chen Peng
7. Dong Yue
8. Tingwen Huang

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