An overview of finite/fixed-time control and its application in engineering systems

Y Liu, H Li, R Lu, Z Zuo, X Li - IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The finite/fixed-time stabilization and tracking control is currently a hot field in various
systems since the faster convergence can be obtained. By contrast to the asymptotic …

Disturbance observers and extended state observers for marine vehicles: A survey

N Gu, D Wang, Z Peng, J Wang, QL Han - Control Engineering Practice, 2022 - Elsevier
The operation performance of marine vehicles (MVs) is significantly vulnerable to external
disturbances induced by wind, waves, and ocean currents in complex marine environments …

Fixed-time and prescribed-time consensus control of multiagent systems and its applications: A survey of recent trends and methodologies

B Ning, QL Han, Z Zuo, L Ding, Q Lu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Fixed-time and prescribed-time consensus control can bring an explicit estimate of the
settling time without dependence on initial conditions, which is important in providing control …

Distributed adaptive fixed-time robust platoon control for fully heterogeneous vehicles

Y Liu, D Yao, L Wang, S Lu - IEEE Transactions on Systems …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article focuses on the distributed adaptive fixed-time platoon tracking problem for third-
order fully heterogeneous nonlinear vehicles. The modified dynamics of each vehicle are …

Bipartite consensus tracking for second-order multiagent systems: A time-varying function-based preset-time approach

B Ning, QL Han, Z Zuo - IEEE Transactions on Automatic …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article is concerned with bipartite consensus tracking for second-order multiagent
systems with signed directed graphs. A time-varying function-based preset-time approach is …

Event-driven NN adaptive fixed-time control for nonlinear systems with guaranteed performance

X Song, P Sun, S Song, V Stojanovic - Journal of the Franklin Institute, 2022 - Elsevier
This article investigates the adaptive neural network fixed-time tracking control issue for a
class of strict-feedback nonlinear systems with prescribed performance demands, in which …

Distributed finite-time secondary frequency and voltage control for islanded microgrids with communication delays and switching topologies

B Ning, QL Han, L Ding - IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article is concerned with the distributed secondary frequency and voltage control for
islanded microgrids. First, the distributed secondary control problem is formulated by taking …

Multiobjective distributed optimization via a predefined-time multiagent approach

Y Liu, Z **a, W Gui - IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this study, we propose a predefined-time multiagent approach for multiobjective
optimization. Predefined-time optimization is an optimization approach that can converge to …

Prescribed-time formation tracking of second-order multi-agent networks with directed graphs

TF Ding, MF Ge, C **ong, ZW Liu, G Ling - Automatica, 2023 - Elsevier
The objective of this paper is to solve the prescribed-time formation tracking problem for the
second-order multi-agent network (MAN) with the interaction graph containing a directed …

Practical predefined-time output-feedback consensus tracking control for multiagent systems

AM Zou, Y Liu, ZG Hou, Z Hu - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article addresses the issue of output-feedback consensus control of multiagent systems
under the directed topology and subject to bounded external disturbances. By employing a …