Distributed tracking control of leader–follower multi-agent systems under noisy measurement

J Hu, G Feng - Automatica, 2010 - Elsevier
In this paper, a distributed tracking control scheme with distributed estimators has been
developed for a leader–follower multi-agent system with measurement noises and directed …

Distributed observers design for leader-following control of multi-agent networks

Y Hong, G Chen, L Bushnell - Automatica, 2008 - Elsevier
This paper is concerned with a leader–follower problem for a multi-agent system with a
switching interconnection topology. Distributed observers are designed for the second-order …

Adaptive tracking control of leader–follower systems with unknown dynamics and partial measurements

J Hu, WX Zheng - Automatica, 2014 - Elsevier
In this paper, a decentralized adaptive tracking control is developed for a second-order
leader–follower system with unknown dynamics and relative position measurements …

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 …

A new fixed-time consensus tracking approach for second-order multiagent systems under directed communication topology

J Ni, Y Tang, P Shi - IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper considers fixed-time consensus tracking of second-order multiagent systems
(MASs) under directed interaction topology. A novel distributed observer is presented to …

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 finite‐time tracking of multiple Euler–Lagrange systems without velocity measurements

Y Zhao, Z Duan, G Wen - International Journal of Robust and …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
This paper investigates the distributed finite‐time tracking problem of networked agents with
multiple Euler–Lagrange dynamics. To achieve finite‐time tracking, a distributed finite‐time …

Neural learning-based fixed-time consensus tracking control for nonlinear multiagent systems with directed communication networks

Y Liu, GH Yang - IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article investigates the problem of fixed-time consensus tracking for nonlinear
multiagent systems. Different from the existing studies where the follower systems are linear …

Adaptive protocol design for distributed tracking with relative output information: A distributed fixed-time observer approach

Y Lv, G Wen, T Huang - IEEE Transactions on Control of …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper studies fully distributed adaptive protocol design for consensus tracking under
leader-follower directed communication graphs, where only relative output information …

Distributed practical output tracking of high-order stochastic multi-agent systems with inherent nonlinear drift and diffusion terms

W Li, JF Zhang - Automatica, 2014 - Elsevier
This paper investigates the distributed tracking problem for a class of high-order stochastic
nonlinear multi-agent systems where the subsystem of each agent is driven by nonlinear …