Semi-Global Leader-Following Consensus of Linear Multi-Agent Systems With Input Saturation via Low Gain Feedback

By Housheng Su, Michael Z. Q. Chen, James Lam, Zongli Lin. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems Part 1: Regular Papers, 2013

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This paper investigates the problem of leader-following consensus of a linear multi-agent system on a switching network. The input of each agent is subject to saturation. Low gain feedback based distributed consensus protocols are developed. It is established that, under the assumptions that each agent is asymptotically null controllable with bounded controls and that the network is connected or jointly connected, semi-global leader-following consensus of the multi-agent system can be achieved. Numerical examples are presented to illustrate this result.

Subfields: Computer Networks and Communications, Control and Systems Engineering

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In Computer Networks and Communications

1. Guanrong Chen
2. Jinde Cao
3. Housheng Su
4. Wenwu Yu
5. Michael Z. Q. Chen
6. Zongli Lin
7. D.W.C. Ho
8. Jiahu Qin

In Control and Systems Engineering

1. Hongyi Li
2. Guanrong Chen
3. Jiahu Qin
4. Yang Shi
5. Qichao Ma
6. Yuanshi Zheng
7. Jingying Ma
8. D.W.C. Ho

Citations in the corpus

• Consensus of Hybrid Multi-Agent Systems (2015, background): “, lots of results about multiagent coordination have been obtained [7], [8], [9], [10].”
• Robust semi‐global coordinated tracking of linear multi‐agent systems with input saturation (2015, background): “Thus far, only a few studies have taken the saturation constraints into consideration [20], [31], [32], [33], [34], [35], [36], [37], [38], for example, to solve the consensus problem in multi-agent systems with single-integrator kinematics [31], [32], [33] or double-integrator dynamics [20], [34], ”
• Event-Triggered Schemes on Leader-Following Consensus of General Linear Multiagent Systems Under Different Topologies (2017, methodology): “Lemma 1 [36]: Some properties of H are given as follows.”
• Semi‐global leader‐following consensus of multiple linear systems with position and rate limited actuators (2015, background): “Reference [20] considers semi-global leader-following consensus of a group of general higher-order systems whose open loop poles are all in the closed left-half plane.”
• Recent Advances in Consensus of Multi-Agent Systems: A Brief Survey (2017, background): “saturation [86], existence of various faults [14], [27], and differences in system dynamics [99]; for the constraints on interagent communication/interaction include the limited communication”
• Event-Triggered Adaptive Tracking Control for Multiagent Systems With Unknown Disturbances (2020, background): “[16] developed a low gain feedback strategy to handle a distributed consensus problem for linear multiagent systems on switching networks.”