Output consensus of nonlinear multi-agent systems with unknown control directions

Tang, Yutao

Kybernetika, Tome 51 (2015) no. 2, pp. 335-346

Abstract (VO)

In this paper, we consider an output consensus problem for a general class of nonlinear multi-agent systems without a prior knowledge of the agents' control directions. Two distributed Nussbaum-type control laws are proposed to solve the leaderless and leader-following adaptive consensus for heterogeneous multiple agents. Examples and simulations are given to verify their effectiveness.

Détail

DOI : 10.14736/kyb-2015-2-0335

Classification : 93A14, 93C40
Keywords: output consensus; heterogeneous multi-agent system; unknown control direction; adaptive control

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