L1 group consensus of multi-agent systems with switching topologies and stochastic inputs

Y Shang - Physics Letters A, 2013 - Elsevier
Understanding how interacting subsystems of an overall system lead to cluster/group
consensus is a key issue in the investigation of multi-agent systems. In this Letter, we study …

Hierarchical task-based formation control and collision avoidance of UAVs in finite time

MA Trujillo, HM Becerra, D Gómez-Gutiérrez… - European Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
This work addresses the problem of distributedly controlling the position of a group of
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), that are considered as holonomic three-dimensional …

Consensus indices of two-layered multi-star networks: An application of Laplacian spectrum

D Huang, J Bian, H Jiang, Z Yu - Frontiers in Physics, 2021 - frontiersin.org
In this article, the convergence speed and robustness of the consensus for several dual-
layered star-composed multi-agent networks are studied through the method of graph …

Finite-time consensus of second-order multi-agent systems via a structural approach

X Li, MZQ Chen, H Su - Journal of the Franklin Institute, 2016 - Elsevier
In this paper the finite-time consensus tracking problem for multi-agent systems with double-
integrator dynamics is investigated under directed interaction topology by a structural …

Finite-time cluster average consensus for networks via distributed iterations

Y Shang - International Journal of Control, Automation and …, 2017 - Springer
In this technical note, we deal with the finite-time cluster average consensus in bidirectional
networks. By designing distributed linear iterations involving stochastic matrices consistent …

Group pinning consensus under fixed and randomlyswitching topologies with acyclic partition

Y Shang - Networks and Heterogeneous Media, 2014 - aimsciences.org
This paper addresses group consensus problems in generic linear multi-agent systems with
directed information flow over (i) fixed topology and (ii) randomly switching topology …

Global finite-time event-triggered consensus for a class of second-order multi-agent systems with the power of positive odd rational number and quantized control …

J Liu, C Wang, X Cai - Neurocomputing, 2019 - Elsevier
In this paper, we mainly investigate the global finite-time event-triggered consensus problem
for a class of second-order multi-agent systems with the power of positive odd rational …

FAT-based robust adaptive controller design for electrically direct-driven robots using Phillips q-Bernstein operators

A Izadbakhsh, AA Kalat, N Nikdel - Robotica, 2022 - cambridge.org
This article proposes a robust and adaptive controller for industrial robot arms with multiple
degrees of freedom without the need for velocity measurement. Many of the controllers …

Consensus recovery from intentional attacks in directed nonlinear multi-agent systems

Y Shang - International Journal of Nonlinear Sciences and …, 2013 - degruyter.com
Resilience or recovery of multi-agent systems against attacks is believed to be one of the
most important topics in control and management of complex systems. Previous studies …

Finite-time consensus of second-order multi-agent connectivity preserving based on adaptive sliding mode control

Y Luo, W Huang, J Cao, Z Cao - Communications in Nonlinear Science and …, 2024 - Elsevier
This study addresses the problem of robust finite-time connectivity preserving consensus for
second-order multi-agent systems (MASs) with a limited communication range. Considering …