International Journal of Control, Vol.90, No.10, 2197-2205, 2017
Coordination of heterogeneous nonlinear multi-agent systems with prescribed behaviours
In this paper, we consider a coordination problem for a class of heterogeneous nonlinear multi-agent systems with a prescribed input-output behaviour which was represented by another input-driven system. In contrast to most existing multi-agent coordination results with an autonomous (virtual) leader, this formulation takes possible control inputs of the leader into consideration. First, the coordination was achieved by utilising a group of distributed observers based on conventional assumptions of model matching problem. Then, a fully distributed adaptive extension was proposed without using the input of this input-output behaviour. An example was given to verify their effectiveness.
Keywords:Heterogeneous multi-agent system;nonlinear dynamics;adaptive control;input-output behaviour