Recent advances in distributed adaptive consensus control of uncertain nonlinear multi-agent systems

So far, distributed adaptive consensus problems for uncertain nonlinear multi-agent systems have not yet been extensively studied. Compared with centralised adaptive control, some new challenges need to be well addressed, for examples, (i) how to reach asymptotically consensus tracking with directed topology condition, by using totally distributed adaptive control strategies; (ii) how to ensure globally uniform boundedness of closed-loop systems while achieving leaderless consensus with semi-positive definite Laplacian matrix; (iii) how to maintain system performance while effectively reducing the communication burden among connected agents. This paper is mainly devoted to report some recent advances in distributed adaptive consensus control. Besides, some interesting research topics which are worthy of further investigation will also be discussed.