This paper deals with the leader-follower formation control problem while communication constraint in data transmitting is considered. From a practical point of view, we study the case in which unmanned vehicles are subject to the limited sensing, and communication is of a particular interest. A three-dimensional formation flight of multi-unmanned aerial vehicles with leader-follower configurat...

We propose a control strategy based on distributed adaptive leader-follower consensus algorithms for multiagent systems (MAS) affected by switching network events. The strategy allows each agent in the MAS to compute its own control input based on local information and information coming from its neighbors. In this sense, MAS distributed control laws are obtained where the coupling gain of the ...

In this article, a resilient consensus analysis of fractional-order nonlinear leader and follower systems with input distributed delays is assumed. To make controller design more practical, it considered that the not implemented as is, disturbance term incorporated into part. A multi-agent system’s topology ahead to weighted graph which may be directed or undirected used. The article examines s...

In this paper, we consider the leader-following consensus problem for multiple uncertain rigid spacecraft systems with the attitude being represented by unit quaternion. Existing results on this problem rely on the assumption that all parameters of the rigid spacecraft system are known exactly. By employing a nonlinear distributed observer for the leader system, we first convert the leader-foll...

In this paper, the optimal adaptive leader-follower consensus of linear continuous time multi-agent systems is considered. The error dynamics of each player depends on its neighbors’ information. Detailed analysis of online optimal leader-follower consensus under known and unknown dynamics is presented. The introduced reinforcement learning-based algorithms learn online the approximate solution...

We propose a distributed adaptive fuzzy iterative learning control (ILC) algorithm to deal with coordination control problems in leader-following multi-agent systems in which each follower agent has unknown dynamics and a non-repeatable input disturbance. The ILC protocols are designed with distributed initial-state learning and it is not necessary to fix the initial value at the beginning of e...

This paper concerns the problem of consensus tracking for multiagent systems with a dynamical leader. In particular, it proposes the corresponding explicit control laws for multiple first-order nonlinear systems, second-order nonlinear systems, and quite general nonlinear systems based on the leader-follower and the tree shaped network topologies. Several numerical simulations are given to veri...

This paper deals with the leader-following consensus of multi-agent systems with matched nonlinear dynamics. Compared with previous works, the major difficulty here is caused by the simultaneous existence of nonidentical agent dynamics and unknown system parameters, which are more practical in real-world applications. To tackle this difficulty, a distributed adaptive control law for each follow...

Using tools from algebraic graph theory and nonsmooth analysis in combination with ideas of collective potential functions, velocity consensus and navigation feedback, a distributed leader–follower flocking algorithm formulti-agent dynamical systemswith time-varying velocities is developedwhere each agent is governed by second-order dynamics. The distributed leader–follower algorithm considers ...