A Distributed Observer for a Class of Nonlinear Systems and Its Application to a Leader-Following Consensus Problem

• Published in: IEEE transactions on automatic control Vol. 64; no. 3; pp. 1221 - 1227
• Main Authors: Liu, Tao, Huang, Jie
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York IEEE 01.03.2019; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Communication networks; Control systems; Control theory; Cooperative control; Decentralized control; Equivalence principle; leader-following consensus; Linear systems; Multi-agent systems; Multiagent systems; Nickel; Nonlinear control; nonlinear distributed observer; Nonlinear systems; Observers; output regulation

In this note, we first present a framework for designing a distributed control law to solve a cooperative control problem of nonlinear multiagent systems with a nonlinear leader system. The distributed control law is composed of a purely decentralized control law and a distributed observer for the l...