IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol.64, No.11, 4772-4779, 2019
Tracking Consensus of General Nonlinear Multiagent Systems With External Disturbances Under Directed Networks
This paper considers the fully distributed tracking consensus problem for general nonlinear multiagent systems with a leader whose control input is nonzero and bounded. First, a new class of distributed state observer for the leader is proposed without the knowledge of the upper bound of the leaders input. Then, the situations that followers are affected by disturbances with unknown upper bound or disturbances generated by exosystems are investigated. Specifically, two distributed control protocols based on the distributed state observer, neural networks, and adaptive laws are proposed. Finally, simulation examples are provided to illustrate the theoretical results.
Keywords:Multi-agent systems;Observers;Upper bound;Symmetric matrices;Decentralized control;Protocols;Neural networks;External disturbances;general nonlinearity;tracking consensus;unknown upper bound