Adaptive leader-following rendezvous and flocking for a class of uncertain second-order nonlinear multi-agent systems

作者：Liu, Wei; Huang, Jie^*

来源：Control Theory and Technology, 2017, 15(4): 354-363.

DOI：10.1007/s11768-017-7083-0

• Adaptive Control
• Communication graphs
• Connectivity preservation
• Consensus problems
• External disturbances
• Nonlinear multi-agent systems
• Potential function
• Van der Pol oscillator

In this paper, we study the leader-following rendezvous and flocking problems for a class of second-order nonlinear multiagent systems, which contain both external disturbances and plant uncertainties. What differs our problems from the conventional leader-following consensus problem is that we need to preserve the connectivity of the communication graph instead of assuming the connectivity of the communication graph. By integrating the adaptive control technique, the distributed observer method and the potential function method, the two problems are both solved. Finally, we apply our results to a group of van der Pol oscillators.

• 出版日期2017-11-1