Achieving cluster formation of multi-agent systems under aperiodic sampling and communication delays

X Ge, QL Han, XM Zhang - IEEE Transactions on Industrial …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper addresses the problem of cluster formation control for a networked multi-agent
system (MAS) in the simultaneous presence of aperiodic sampling and communication …

Distributed adaptive time-varying group formation tracking for multiagent systems with multiple leaders on directed graphs

J Hu, P Bhowmick, A Lanzon - IEEE Transactions on Control of …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper proposes a fully distributed control protocol that achieves time-varying group
formation tracking for linear multiagent systems connected via a directed graph. The group …

Leader–follower consensus of linear multi-agent systems with unknown external disturbances

W Cao, J Zhang, W Ren - Systems & Control Letters, 2015 - Elsevier
This paper addresses the leader–follower consensus tracking problem for multi-agent
systems with identical general linear dynamics and unknown external disturbances. First, a …

Multi-formation control of nonlinear leader-following multi-agent systems

T Han, ZH Guan, M Chi, B Hu, T Li, XH Zhang - ISA transactions, 2017 - Elsevier
This paper deals with the multi-formation control problem for nonlinear leader-following multi-
agent systems. Both the fixed topology case and the switching topology case are …

Data-driven optimal output cluster synchronization control of heterogeneous multi-agent systems

H Li, Q Wei - IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a novel data-driven optimal output cluster synchronization control
method for heterogeneous multi-agent systems with disturbances based on adaptive …

Scaled group consensus in multiagent systems with first/second-order continuous dynamics

J Yu, Y Shi - IEEE transactions on cybernetics, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We investigate scaled group consensus problems of multiagent systems with first/second-
order linear continuous dynamics. For a complex network consisting of two subnetworks with …

Scaled consensus of second-order nonlinear multiagent systems with time-varying delays via aperiodically intermittent control

Z Zhang, S Chen, H Su - IEEE transactions on cybernetics, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, the scaled consensus of multiagent systems (MASs) with second-order
nonlinear dynamics and time-varying delays is investigated, where agents are supposed to …

Optimal consensus control for unknown second-order multi-agent systems: Using model-free reinforcement learning method

J Li, L Ji, H Li - Applied Mathematics and Computation, 2021 - Elsevier
In this paper, the optimal consensus control problem with second-order dynamics consisting
of leader and follower agents is discussed. For optimal consensus problem, the optimal …

Dynamical group consensus of heterogenous multi-agent systems with input time delays

G Wen, Y Yu, Z Peng, H Wang - Neurocomputing, 2016 - Elsevier
This paper investigates the dynamics group consensus problem of heterogenous multi-
agent systems with time delays, in which agents' dynamics are modeled by single …

Optimal couple-group tracking control for the heterogeneous multi-agent systems with cooperative-competitive interactions via reinforcement learning method

J Li, L Ji, C Zhang, H Li - Information Sciences, 2022 - Elsevier
In this paper, we study a class of optimal couple-group tracking control (OCGTC) problems
for heterogeneous multi-agent systems (HeMASs) based on reinforcement learning (RL) …