Leader-follower fixed-time consensus for multi-agent systems with unknown non-linear inherent dynamics

• Published in: IET control theory & applications Vol. 9; no. 14; pp. 2165 - 2170
• Main Authors: Defoort, Michael, Polyakov, Andrey, Demesure, Guillaume, Djemai, Mohamed, Veluvolu, Kalyana
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: The Institution of Engineering and Technology 17.09.2015
• Subjects: Brief Papers; controller gains; Convergence; convergence time; distributed control protocol; Dynamical systems; finite time; first order multiagent systems; Gain; Initial conditions; leader‐follower fixed time consensus; Mathematical analysis; Multiagent systems; multi‐agent systems; Nonlinear dynamics; Tracking errors; unknown nonlinear inherent dynamics; multi-agent systems; unknown nonlinear inherent dynamics; leader-follower fixed time consensus; tracking errors; controller gains; convergence time; finite time; first order multiagent systems; distributed control protocol

This study focuses on the design of fixed-time consensus for first-order multi-agent systems with unknown inherent non-linear dynamics. A distributed control protocol, based on local information, is proposed to ensure the convergence of the tracking errors in finite time. Some conditions are derived...