This paper is concerned with the decentralized control problem of networked high-order nonlinear systems that can be transformed into strict feedback forms parameter uncertainties and unknown directions under a directed communication graph. A controller designed recursively for each agent to realize output synchronization guarantee overall system bounded. Instead Lyapunov-based argument which c...

Decentralized control methods are appealing in coordination of multiple vehicles due to their low demand for long-range communication and their robustness to single-point failures. An important approach in decentralized multi-vehicle control involves artificial potentials or digital pheromones. In this paper we explore a decentralized approach to path generation for a group of combat vehicles i...

In decentralized control it is known that the system can be stabilized only if the so-called fixed modes are all stable. If we have input constraints then (semi-)global stability requires all poles to be in the closed left half plane. This paper establishes that these two requirements are necessary and sufficient for stabilizability of a decentralized system with input saturation.

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This study introduces decentralized static output feedback fuzzy control design for nonlinear interconnected systems via T-S fuzzy models. In general, due to the interactions among subsystems, it is dif cult to design an decentralized output feedback controller for nonlinear interconnected systems. A singular value decomposition (SVD) method is proposed in this study to solve the decentralized ...

As control devices are becoming smaller, more cost effective, and more reliable, opportunities are now available to instrument a structure with large number of control devices. With densely installed sensing and control devices, scalability of control systems will be hindered by their dependence on centralized control strategies. This paper presents a time-delayed decentralized H2 output feedba...