Distributed formation output regulation of switching heterogeneous multi-agent systems

Abstract

In this article, the distributed formation output regulation problem of linear heterogeneous multi-agent systems with uncertainty under switching topology is considered. It is a generalised framework for multi-agent coordination problems, which contains or concerns a variety of important multi-agent problems in a quite unified way. Its background includes active leader following formation for the agents to maintain desired relative distances and orientations to the leader with a predefined trajectory, and multi-agent formation with environmental inputs. With the help of canonical internal model we design a distributed dynamic output feedback to handle the distributed formation output regulation problem.

Keywords:

• multi-agent systems
• distributed formation output regulation
• environmental input
• canonical internal model

Acknowledgements

This work has been supported in part by the NNSF of China under Grants 61104096 and SDNSF under Grants ZR2011FQ014.