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Distributed time-varying formation control for second-order nonlinear multi-agent systems based on observers

  • Beihang University

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Abstract

In this paper, time-varying formation analysis and design problems for second-order nonlinear multi-agent systems are studied using a distributed observer-based method. The formation in this paper can be specified by time-varying continuously differentiable vectors and the dynamics of each agent has nonlinearity. Firstly, a nonlinear time-varying formation control protocol is proposed based on the distributed observer. Then a nonsingular transformation matrix is constructed using the property of the Laplacian matrix. Sufficient conditions for the second-order nonlinear multi-agent systems to achieve time-varying formations are presented using only position feedback, where a description of the feasible time-varying formation set is given. Thirdly, an algorithm with three steps is proposed to design the distributed observer-based formation control protocol. By using the Lyapunov theory, the stability of the proposed algorithm is proven. Finally, a numerical example with five nonlinear agents is provided to demonstrate the effectiveness of the obtained results.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 29th Chinese Control and Decision Conference, CCDC 2017
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages6313-6318
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781509046560
DOIs
StatePublished - 12 Jul 2017
Event29th Chinese Control and Decision Conference, CCDC 2017 - Chongqing, China
Duration: 28 May 201730 May 2017

Publication series

NameProceedings of the 29th Chinese Control and Decision Conference, CCDC 2017

Conference

Conference29th Chinese Control and Decision Conference, CCDC 2017
Country/TerritoryChina
CityChongqing
Period28/05/1730/05/17

Keywords

  • Distributed observer
  • Multi-agent systems
  • Second-order nonlinear dynamics
  • Time-varying formation

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