Leader-following consensus for multi-agent systems via sampled-data control

Author(s): Z.-J. Tang ; T.-Z. Huang ; J.-L. Shao ; J.-P. Hu
DOI: 10.1049/iet-cta.2010.0653

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Author(s): Z.-J. Tang ^{1, 2} ; T.-Z. Huang ¹ ; J.-L. Shao ¹ ; J.-P. Hu ³
- Affiliations: 1: School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, People's Republic of China
  2: School of Science, Chongqing Jiaotong University, Chongqing, People's Republic of China
  3: School of Automation Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, People's Republic of China
Source: Volume 5, Issue 14, 22 September 2011, p. 1658 – 1665
DOI: 10.1049/iet-cta.2010.0653 , Print ISSN 1751-8644, Online ISSN 1751-8652

In this article, the authors study a leader-following consensus problem for multi-agent systems in a sampled-data setting. A distributed coordination algorithm based on sampled-data control is proposed to track the considered leader. By employing M-matrix theory, the authors derive sufficient conditions on the sampling period and control parameters to ensure that the tracking errors are bounded. Numerical simulations are presented to illustrate the effectiveness of the theoretical results. Moreover, some previous results concerning the leader-following problem with switched coupling topology are improved.

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