中国物理B ›› 2023, Vol. 32 ›› Issue (12): 120502-120502.doi: 10.1088/1674-1056/aceeeb

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Team-based fixed-time containment control for multi-agent systems with disturbances

Xiao-Wen Zhao(赵小文)1,†, Jin-Yue Wang(王进月)1, Qiang Lai(赖强)2, and Yuan Liu(刘源)1   

  1. 1 School of Mathematics, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei 230601, China;
    2 School of Electrical and Automation Engineering, East China Jiaotong University, Nanchang 330013, China
  • 收稿日期:2023-07-06 修回日期:2023-08-02 接受日期:2023-08-10 出版日期:2023-11-14 发布日期:2023-11-27
  • 通讯作者: Xiao-Wen Zhao E-mail:zhaoxiaowen@hfut.edu.cn
  • 基金资助:
    This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos.62173121, 62002095, 61961019, and 61803139) and the Youth Key Project of Natural Science Foundation of Jiangxi Province of China (Grant No.20202ACBL212003).

Team-based fixed-time containment control for multi-agent systems with disturbances

Xiao-Wen Zhao(赵小文)1,†, Jin-Yue Wang(王进月)1, Qiang Lai(赖强)2, and Yuan Liu(刘源)1   

  1. 1 School of Mathematics, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei 230601, China;
    2 School of Electrical and Automation Engineering, East China Jiaotong University, Nanchang 330013, China
  • Received:2023-07-06 Revised:2023-08-02 Accepted:2023-08-10 Online:2023-11-14 Published:2023-11-27
  • Contact: Xiao-Wen Zhao E-mail:zhaoxiaowen@hfut.edu.cn
  • Supported by:
    This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos.62173121, 62002095, 61961019, and 61803139) and the Youth Key Project of Natural Science Foundation of Jiangxi Province of China (Grant No.20202ACBL212003).

摘要: We investigate the fixed-time containment control (FCC) problem of multi-agent systems (MASs) under discontinuous communication. A saturation function is used in the controller to achieve the containment control in MASs. One difference from using a symbolic function is that it avoids the differential calculation process for discontinuous functions, which further ensures the continuity of the control input. Considering the discontinuous communication, a dynamic variable is constructed, which is always non-negative between any two communications of the agent. Based on the designed variable, the dynamic event-triggered algorithm is proposed to achieve FCC, which can effectively reduce controller updating. In addition, we further design a new event-triggered algorithm to achieve FCC, called the team-trigger mechanism, which combines the self-triggering technique with the proposed dynamic event trigger mechanism. It has faster convergence than the proposed dynamic event triggering technique and achieves the tradeoff between communication cost, convergence time and number of triggers in MASs. Finally, Zeno behavior is excluded and the validity of the proposed theory is confirmed by simulation.

关键词: fixed-time containment control, dynamic event-triggered strategy, team-based triggered strategy, multi-agent systems

Abstract: We investigate the fixed-time containment control (FCC) problem of multi-agent systems (MASs) under discontinuous communication. A saturation function is used in the controller to achieve the containment control in MASs. One difference from using a symbolic function is that it avoids the differential calculation process for discontinuous functions, which further ensures the continuity of the control input. Considering the discontinuous communication, a dynamic variable is constructed, which is always non-negative between any two communications of the agent. Based on the designed variable, the dynamic event-triggered algorithm is proposed to achieve FCC, which can effectively reduce controller updating. In addition, we further design a new event-triggered algorithm to achieve FCC, called the team-trigger mechanism, which combines the self-triggering technique with the proposed dynamic event trigger mechanism. It has faster convergence than the proposed dynamic event triggering technique and achieves the tradeoff between communication cost, convergence time and number of triggers in MASs. Finally, Zeno behavior is excluded and the validity of the proposed theory is confirmed by simulation.

Key words: fixed-time containment control, dynamic event-triggered strategy, team-based triggered strategy, multi-agent systems

中图分类号:  (Self-organized systems)

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02.30.Yy (Control theory) 05.45.Ac (Low-dimensional chaos) 89.75.-k (Complex systems)