Distributed adaptive pinning control for cooperative linear output regulation of multi-agent systems

This paper investigates the cooperative linear output regulation problem of a class of heterogeneous multi-agent systems with a common reference input but with different disturbances for individual agents. Two classes of distributed adaptive pinning control laws are presented based on state feedback and dynamic output feedback respectively. It is shown that under the proposed control laws the overall closed-loop control system is asymptotically stable and the outputs of all agents can track the reference input asymptotically. Finally, a numerical example demonstrates the effectiveness of the proposed control laws.