An overview of recent progress in the study of distributed multi-agent coordination

Y Cao, W Yu, W Ren, G Chen - IEEE Transactions on Industrial …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper reviews some main results and progress in distributed multi-agent coordination,
focusing on papers published in major control systems and robotics journals since 2006 …

Distributed containment control with multiple stationary or dynamic leaders in fixed and switching directed networks

Y Cao, W Ren, M Egerstedt - Automatica, 2012 - Elsevier
In this paper, we study the problem of distributed containment control of a group of mobile
autonomous agents with multiple stationary or dynamic leaders under both fixed and …

Distributed containment control of multi‐agent systems with general linear dynamics in the presence of multiple leaders

Z Li, W Ren, X Liu, M Fu - International Journal of Robust and …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
This paper considers the containment control problems for both continuous‐time and
discrete‐time multi‐agent systems with general linear dynamics under directed …

Adaptive fault-tolerant tracking control for linear and Lipschitz nonlinear multi-agent systems

Z Zuo, J Zhang, Y Wang - IEEE Transactions on Industrial …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper considers the problem of fault-tolerant tracking control for linear and Lipschitz
nonlinear multi-agent systems subject to actuator faults and the leader's bounded unknown …

Distributed containment control for multiple autonomous vehicles with double-integrator dynamics: Algorithms and experiments

Y Cao, D Stuart, W Ren, Z Meng - IEEE Transactions on Control …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This brief studies distributed containment control for double-integrator dynamics in the
presence of both stationary and dynamic leaders. In the case of stationary leaders, we …

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 …

Asynchronous tracking control of leader–follower multiagent systems with input uncertainties over switching signed digraphs

J Shao, L Shi, Y Cheng, T Li - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Signed digraphs with both positive and negative weighted edges are widely applied to
explain cooperative and competitive interactions arising from various social, biological, and …

Leaderless and leader-following consensus with communication and input delays under a directed network topology

Z Meng, W Ren, Y Cao, Z You - IEEE Transactions on Systems …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, time-domain (Lyapunov theorems) and frequency-domain (the Nyquist stability
criterion) approaches are used to study leaderless and leader-following consensus …

Distributed robust consensus control of multi-agent systems with heterogeneous matching uncertainties

Z Li, Z Duan, FL Lewis - Automatica, 2014 - Elsevier
This paper considers the distributed consensus problem of linear multi-agent systems
subject to different matching uncertainties for both the cases without and with a leader of …

Decentralized finite-time sliding mode estimators and their applications in decentralized finite-time formation tracking

Y Cao, W Ren, Z Meng - Systems & Control Letters, 2010 - Elsevier
In this paper, a simple but efficient framework is proposed to achieve finite-time
decentralized formation tracking of multiple autonomous vehicles with the introduction of …