Flocking in fixed and switching networks

HG Tanner, A Jadbabaie… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2007 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This note analyzes the stability properties of a group of mobile agents that align their velocity
vectors, and stabilize their inter-agent distances, using decentralized, nearest-neighbor …

Lyapunov stability theory of nonsmooth systems

D Shevitz, B Paden - IEEE Transactions on automatic control, 1994 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper develops nonsmooth Lyapunov stability theory and LaSalle's invariance principle
for a class of nonsmooth Lipschitz continuous Lyapunov functions and absolutely …

Adaptive neural backstepping control design for a class of nonsmooth nonlinear systems

X Zhao, X Wang, S Zhang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper investigates the problems of backstepping control for a class of nonsmooth
nonlinear systems. With the help of set-valued functions (or maps) and set-valued …

Distributed optimization for linear multiagent systems: Edge-and node-based adaptive designs

Y Zhao, Y Liu, G Wen, G Chen - IEEE Transactions on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper studies the distributed optimization problem for continuous-time multiagent
systems with general linear dynamics. The objective is to cooperatively optimize a team …

Distributed coordinated tracking with reduced interaction via a variable structure approach

Y Cao, W Ren - IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A distributed coordinated tracking problem is solved via a variable structure approach when
there exists a dynamic virtual leader who is a neighbor of only a subset of a group of …

Distributed coordinated tracking with a dynamic leader for multiple Euler-Lagrange systems

J Mei, W Ren, G Ma - IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this note, we study a distributed coordinated tracking problem for multiple networked Euler-
Lagrange systems. The objective is for a team of followers modeled by full-actuated Euler …

Adaptive backstepping control for nonlinear interconnected systems with prespecified-performance-driven output triggering

L Zhang, C Deng, WW Che, L An - Automatica, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper considers a class of nonlinear large-scale interconnected systems and proposes
an event-triggered decentralized controller by using adaptive output feedback backstepping …

Adaptive control for pneumatic artificial muscle systems with parametric uncertainties and unidirectional input constraints

N Sun, D Liang, Y Wu, Y Chen, Y Qin… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Pneumatic artificial muscle (PAM) systems are a kind of tube-like actuators, which can act
roughly like human muscles by performing contractile or extensional motions actuated by …

Collective behaviors of mobile robots beyond the nearest neighbor rules with switching topology

B Ning, QL Han, Z Zuo, J Jin… - IEEE transactions on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper is concerned with the collective behaviors of robots beyond the nearest neighbor
rules, ie, dispersion and flocking, when robots interact with others by applying an acute …

Fuzzy-approximation-based adaptive output-feedback control for uncertain nonsmooth nonlinear systems

X Zhao, X Wang, G Zong, H Li - IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper proposes a solution to adaptive output-feedback control for a class of nonsmooth
nonlinear systems. First, the concept of semiglobally uniformly ultimately bounded (SGUUB) …