An overview of recent progress in the study of distributed multi-agent coordination

Y Cao, W Yu, W Ren, G Chen - IEEE Transactions on Industrial …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper reviews some main results and progress in distributed multi-agent coordination,
focusing on papers published in major control systems and robotics journals since 2006 …

Consensus tracking of multi-agent systems with Lipschitz-type node dynamics and switching topologies

G Wen, Z Duan, G Chen, W Yu - IEEE Transactions on Circuits …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Distributed consensus tracking is addressed in this paper for multi-agent systems with
Lipschitz-type node dynamics. The main contribution of this work is solving the consensus …

Containment of higher-order multi-leader multi-agent systems: A dynamic output approach

G Wen, Y Zhao, Z Duan, W Yu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This technical note addresses the distributed containment control problem for a linear multi-
leader multi-agent system with a directed communication topology. A new class of …

Distributed adaptive control for consensus tracking with application to formation control of nonholonomic mobile robots

W Wang, J Huang, C Wen, H Fan - Automatica, 2014 - Elsevier
In this paper, we investigate the output consensus problem of tracking a desired trajectory
for a class of systems consisting of multiple nonlinear subsystems with intrinsic mismatched …

Semi-global leader-following consensus of linear multi-agent systems with input saturation via low gain feedback

H Su, MZQ Chen, J Lam, Z Lin - IEEE Transactions on Circuits …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper investigates the problem of leader-following consensus of a linear multi-agent
system on a switching network. The input of each agent is subject to saturation. Low gain …

Distributed finite-time containment control for double-integrator multiagent systems

X Wang, S Li, P Shi - IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, the distributed finite-time containment control problem for double-integrator
multiagent systems with multiple leaders and external disturbances is discussed. In the …

Network-based leader-following consensus for distributed multi-agent systems

L Ding, QL Han, G Guo - Automatica, 2013 - Elsevier
This paper is concerned with network-based leader-following consensus for a distributed
multi-agent system. A network-based consensus control protocol under a directed graph is …

Second-order consensus in multi-agent dynamical systems with sampled position data

W Yu, WX Zheng, G Chen, W Ren, J Cao - Automatica, 2011 - Elsevier
This paper studies second-order consensus in multi-agent dynamical systems with sampled
position data. A distributed linear consensus protocol with second-order dynamics is …

Leader–follower consensus of time-varying nonlinear multi-agent systems

X Zhang, L Liu, G Feng - Automatica, 2015 - Elsevier
A distributed consensus protocol is developed for a class of homogeneous time-varying
nonlinear multi-agent systems in this paper. The agents dynamics are supposed to be in the …

Bipartite average tracking for multi-agent systems with disturbances: Finite-time and fixed-time convergence

T Han, ZH Guan, B **ao, H Yan - IEEE Transactions on Circuits …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper addresses the finite-time and fixed-time bipartite average tracking (BAT)
problems in multi-agent systems (MASs) subject to bounded disturbances. A novel non …