Observer-based synchronization control of networked multi-agent systems with communication delays and data loss

This paper studies synchronization problem of discrete-time multi-agent systems with communication delays and data loss. An observer-based distributed control law is designed for synchronization to a leader-agent´s dynamics under the assumption that its control input is the common policy. Meanwhile, sufficient conditions for guaranteeing synchronization with respect to a set of observer-based control laws are given under switching interaction topologies. Finally, experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.