Distributed Output Regulation of Nonlinear Multi-Agent Systems via Host Internal Model

Author

Dabo Xu ; Yiguang Hong ; Xinghu Wang

Author_Institution

Sch. of Autom., Nanjing Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Nanjing, China

Volume

59

Issue

10

fYear

2014

fDate

Oct. 2014

Firstpage

2784

Lastpage

2789

Abstract

This note presents a host internal model (h-IM) approach to distributed output regulation of reaching nonlinear leader-following consensus. Focusing on a basic nonlinear scenario of identical (or homogeneous) agents of a normal form, it is shown that the problem is solvable as long as its interaction digraph contains a certain directed spanning tree. A constructive Lyapunov protocol is proposed by incorporating a single h-IM. The result is also demonstrated by FitzHugh-Nagumo (FHN) and Lorenz type nonlinear dynamic networks.

Keywords

Lyapunov methods; multi-agent systems; nonlinear dynamical systems; FHN; FitzHugh-Nagumo; Lorenz type nonlinear dynamic networks; constructive Lyapunov protocol; directed spanning tree; distributed output regulation; h-IM; host internal model; interaction digraph; nonlinear multiagent systems; Indexes; Lead; Mathematical model; Multi-agent systems; Nonlinear dynamical systems; Regulators; Consensus; distributed control; multi-agent systems; output regulation;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Automatic Control, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9286

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TAC.2014.2313171

Filename

6777517