ANALYSIS OF COORDINATION IN MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS THROUGH PARTIAL DIFFERENCE EQUATIONS. PART II: NONLINEAR CONTROL

2005 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 209-214 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giancarlo Ferrari-Trecate ◽  
Annalisa Buffa ◽  
Mehdi Gati
Keyword(s):  
Nonlinear Control ◽  
Difference Equations ◽  
Multi Agent Systems ◽  
Partial Difference Equations ◽  
Partial Difference ◽  
Agent Systems ◽  
Multi Agent

Distributed Nonlinear Control of Multi-Agent Systems with Switching Topologies

2016 ◽  
Vol 04 (01) ◽  
pp. 75-81
Author(s):  
Tengfei Liu ◽  
Zhong-Ping Jiang
Keyword(s):  
Nonlinear Control ◽  
Distributed Control ◽  
Dynamic Network ◽  
Multi Agent Systems ◽  
Agent Systems ◽  
Switching Topologies ◽  
Distributed Controller ◽  
Distributed Control Problem ◽  
Small Gain ◽  
Multi Agent

This paper studies the distributed nonlinear control of multi-agent systems with switching topologies for output agreement. A novel cyclic-small-gain approach is proposed. The crucial idea is to introduce a new dynamic mechanism to process the exchanged information between the agents, and to transform the distributed control problem into a stabilization problem for a dynamic network composed of input-to-output stable (IOS) subsystems. The desired distributed controller is designed based on IOS and cyclic-small-gain techniques. More interestingly, it is shown that the proposed method can be extended to distributed control design in the presence of disturbances.

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