DOI

This note develops a discrete-time predictor feedback control scheme for continuous-time multi-agent systems with input and communication time-delays. With measurement of locally available relative state signals among neighbored agents, the controller is able to achieve consensus for a large variety of linear open-loop agent dynamics, including exponentially unstable systems. Moreover, the new design can deal with arbitrarily large time-delays in some special scenarios. The feature of discrete-time and relative state measurement substantially saves implementation cost compared with the existing methods in literature. Numerical simulation demonstrates the effectiveness of the proposed theoretical design.

Original languageEnglish
Article number7967729
Pages (from-to)498-504
Number of pages7
JournalIEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
Volume63
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - Feb 2018

    Research areas

  • Aerospace electronics, Computational efficiency, consensus, Delays, Eigenvalues and eigenfunctions, Multi-agent systems, predictor feedback, time-delay, Upper bound, time delay, Consensus, predictor feedback (PF), multiagent systems (MASs), COMPENSATION, STABILIZATION, INPUT DELAY, COMMUNICATION DELAYS, NONLINEAR-SYSTEMS, UNSTABLE LINEAR-SYSTEMS

    Scopus subject areas

  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • Control and Systems Engineering
  • Computer Science Applications

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