On the control of multi-agent systems: A survey

F Chen, W Ren - Foundations and Trends® in Systems and …, 2019 - nowpublishers.com
Recent years have witnessed a trend to use networked multiple autonomous agents to
accomplish complex tasks arising from space-based applications, smart grids, and machine …

How often should one update control and estimation: review of networked triggering techniques

Z Chen, QL Han, Y Yan, ZG Wu - Science China Information Sciences, 2020 - Springer
Management of resources is a constant topic in industrial systems. How to use minimum
communication resources is of particular interest for control and estimation of networked …

Fixed-time and prescribed-time consensus control of multiagent systems and its applications: A survey of recent trends and methodologies

B Ning, QL Han, Z Zuo, L Ding, Q Lu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Fixed-time and prescribed-time consensus control can bring an explicit estimate of the
settling time without dependence on initial conditions, which is important in providing control …

Fixed-time consensus tracking for multiagent systems with high-order integrator dynamics

Z Zuo, B Tian, M Defoort, Z Ding - IEEE Transactions on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper addresses the fixed-time leader-follower consensus problem for high-order
integrator multiagent systems subject to matched external disturbances. A new cascade …

Practical fixed-time consensus for integrator-type multi-agent systems: A time base generator approach

B Ning, QL Han, Z Zuo - Automatica, 2019 - Elsevier
A new practical fixed-time consensus framework for integrator-type multi-agent systems is
developed by using a time base generator (TBG). For both leaderless and leader-following …

Fixed-time synchronization of complex networks with impulsive effects via nonchattering control

X Yang, J Lam, DWC Ho, Z Feng - IEEE Transactions on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Dealing with impulsive effects is one of the most challenging problems in the field of fixed-
time control. In this paper, we solve this challenging problem by considering fixed-time …

Non‐singular fixed‐time terminal sliding mode control of non‐linear systems

Z Zuo - IET control theory & applications, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
This study addresses a fixed‐time terminal sliding‐mode control methodology for a class of
second‐order non‐linear systems in the presence of matched uncertainties and …

Distributed finite-time secondary frequency and voltage control for islanded microgrids with communication delays and switching topologies

B Ning, QL Han, L Ding - IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article is concerned with the distributed secondary frequency and voltage control for
islanded microgrids. First, the distributed secondary control problem is formulated by taking …

Distributed optimization for multiagent systems: An edge-based fixed-time consensus approach

B Ning, QL Han, Z Zuo - IEEE transactions on cybernetics, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper deals with the problem of distributed optimization for multiagent systems by using
an edge-based fixed-time consensus approach. In the case of time-invariant cost functions …

Distributed robust fixed-time consensus for nonlinear and disturbed multiagent systems

H Hong, W Yu, G Wen, X Yu - IEEE Transactions on Systems …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, the robust fixed-time consensus problem for multiagent systems with nonlinear
dynamics and uncertain disturbances under a weighted undirected topology is investigated …