ABSTRACT
This paper focuses on the finite-time tracking control problem of fractional-order multi-agent systems subject to input saturation and constraints. The interaction topology is assumed to be directed and contain a spanning tree. The appropriate barrier Lyapunov functions are constructed to tackle the output and partial states constraints. Since only the system output is available, a reduced-order state observer is constructed to obtain the unmeasurable state variables. Fuzzy logic system is applied to tackle the uncertain nonlinear dynamics in the system and the unknown parameters are estimated by adaptive laws. An event-triggered control scheme is designed to reduce communication burden. The proposed distributed controller can guarantee that all signals of the system are bounded, the constrained states never breach the time-varying constraints, finite-time tracking can be achieved with a bounded error and the Zeno behavior does not occur. At last, the effectiveness of the proposed control scheme is validated by an example.
Introduction
For a long time, most studies focus on multi-agent systems (MASs) with integer-order dynamic (Antonio et al. Citation2021; Chang et al. Citation2022; Li et al. Citation2022; Ma et al. Citation2022; Viel et al. Citation2022; Wang, Wang, and Huang Citation2022). However, fractional-order systems (FOSs) have more advantages than traditional integer-order dynamics in describing biological systems or engineering systems with memory and genetic characteristics, which makes the theory of fractional-order calculus play an irreplaceable role in the fields of information science, system control, biomedicine and so on. Therefore, the study on fractional-order MASs (FOMASs) has been widely concerned by scholars, such as containment control (Ling, Yuan, and Mo Citation2019; Shahamatkhah and Tabatabaei Citation2020; Wu et al. Citation2021), cluster consensus (Yaghoubi and Talebi Citation2020), formation control (Cajo et al. Citation2021; Liu, Li, Qi et al. Citation2019, Liu, Li, chen Citation2019) and so on. Compared with integer-order MASs, the study on FOMASs is still few, and the control methods of integer-order MASs cannot be applied to FOMASs directly, which makes the study of FOMASs more challenging.
In some practical applications, not only the control input but also the system state may be limited to a bounded region due to the limitations of physical devices. Therefore, it is of theoretical and practical significance to consider the control problem of constrained systems. At present, constraint problems such as input saturation (IS) (Chen et al. Citation2018; Fu et al. Citation2019, Citation2019, Citation2022; Sheng et al. Citation2018; Wang and Liang Citation2018; Wang et al. Citation2020), output constraints and state constraints (Wang et al. Citation2021; Wei, Li, and Tong Citation2020; Yang, Yu, and Zheng Citation2021) have become the main focus of engineering systems. In Wang et al. (Citation2020), the problem of adaptive control of uncertain nonlinear incommensurate FOSs with IS based on fuzzy logic system (FLS) was considered. In Wang and Liang (Citation2018), an neural network (NN) adaptive control method was proposed for FOSs subject to IS. The robust consensus problem of FOMASs with IS was studied in Chen et al. (Citation2018). Taking IS into account, an adaptive backstepping control scheme with observer was proposed for FOSs in Sheng et al. (Citation2018). In Fu et al. (Citation2019), the consensus problem of second-order MASs with IS was considered. The robust global containment control problem for MASs subject to IS was studied in Fu et al. (Citation2019). In Fu et al. (Citation2022), the distributed formation navigation problem of MASs subject to IS was considered. In Yang, Yu, and Zheng (Citation2021), the fault-tolerant fuzzy adaptive tracking control problem was investigated for uncertain nonaffine FOSs with full state constraints (FSCs), in which the barrier Lyapunov function (BLF) was applied to deal with the FSCs. In Wei, Li, and Tong (Citation2020), an adaptive control issue for nonlinear FOSs with FSCs was addressed based on NN, and the constraint function considered was constant. Both FSCs and IS were considered in Wang et al. (Citation2021), and an NN-based adaptive control for nonlinear FOSs was proposed.
Compared with time-triggered control, event-triggered control (ETC) (Cao and Nie Citation2021; Chen et al. Citation2020; Lin et al. Citation2022; Shahvali, Naghibi-Sistani, and Askari Citation2022; Wang and Dong Citation2022a, Citation2022b; Ye, Su, and Sun Citation2018; Zhang et al. Citation2022) can avoid unnecessary sampling and communication. The tracking control problem of FOMASs with unmeasurable states via fuzzy adaptive ETC strategy was presented in Wang and Dong (Citation2022a). In Wang and Dong (Citation2022b), an output feedback-based adaptive fault-tolerant fuzzy tracking control problem for FOMASs with nonlinearity and actuator failures using ETC scheme was studied. The exponential consensus problem was investigated in Zhang et al. (Citation2022) for descriptor leader-following FOMASs with ETC protocol. In Shahvali, Naghibi-Sistani, and Askari (Citation2022), an adaptive NN-based backstepping control scheme was designed for FOSs with nonlinearity via ETC scheme. The consensus problem of FOMASs via pinning impulsive control using ETC mechanism was studied in Lin et al. (Citation2022). In Cao and Nie (Citation2021), both unknown nonlinear functions and unmodeled dynamics were considered, and an adaptive NN-based ETC strategy was proposed for nonlinear FOSs with IS. In Chen et al. (Citation2020), the consensus problem of linear leader-following FOMASs using ETC strategy in directed networks was studied. In Ye, Su, and Sun (Citation2018), the tracking control problem of general linear FOMASs via ETC strategy was investigated.
Finite-time stability is also an important aspect in systems and control (Chen, Liu, and Yu Citation2020; Fan et al. Citation2020; Shang and Cai Citation2021; Shou et al. Citation2022; Zhao et al. Citation2022). The results show that the finite-time control (FTC) approach not only makes the system converge faster, but also has better anti-interference and robustness in the case of disturbance and uncertainty. The FTC problem was investigated in Fan et al. (Citation2020) for uncertain nonaffine MASs with input quantization and unknown nonlinearity. An adaptive containment FTC scheme for non-strict feedback nonlinear MASs was studied in Zhao et al. (Citation2022) based on NN via output feedback. In Shang and Cai (Citation2021), the fast finite-time consensus problem of high-order MASs with uncertainty, time-varying asymmetric FSCs and nonlinearity was considered. In Chen, Liu, and Yu (Citation2020), the FTC problem for strict feedback MASs with heterogeneous nonlinear dynamics based on FLS was studied. The finite-time formation control problem of MASs was addressed in Shou et al. (Citation2022) based on NN. The works mentioned above are all on MASs with integer-order dynamics, and there are few studies on FOSs (Li, Wei, and Tong Citation2021; Liu et al. Citation2022). An NN-based adaptive FTC scheme for nonlinear FOSs via ETC was proposed in Li, Wei, and Tong (Citation2021). For nonaffine FOMASs with completely unknown high-order dynamics and disturbances, an adaptive bipartite containment control problem was considered in Liu et al. (Citation2022) based on FTC algorithm.
In view of the above analysis, it is very meaningful to explore this topic in depth. In this paper, the FTC problem of FOMASs with unknown nonlinear dynamics and external disturbances in networks including a directed spanning tree (DST) is investigated subject to partial state constraints (PSCs) and IS. A distributed adaptive saturated control scheme is designed via output feedback using ETC strategy to ensure the practical finite-time stability (PFTS). The main contributions of this paper are as follows:
A novel output feedback-based distributed adaptive fuzzy FTC scheme with PSCs and IS via ETC strategy is proposed to guarantee the constrained states of system remaining within the constraint boundaries, all system signals being bounded, the PFTS of error system rather than the infinite-time stability (Wang and Liang, Citation2018; Wang et al. Citation2021; Wang and Dong Citation2022a; Wei, Li, and Tong Citation2020) and no Zeno behavior occurring. Different from the traditional time-triggered control strategy (Wang and Liang., Citation2018; Chen et al. Citation2018; Sheng et al. Citation2018), the ETC scheme proposed in this paper will be more advantageous.
The FOMASs considered in this work is more general than that in Wang et al. (Citation2020), Wang and Liang (Citation2018), Sheng et al. (Citation2018), Yang, Yu, and Zheng (Citation2021), Wang and Dong (Citation2022a), Zhao et al. (Citation2022), Chen, Liu, and Yu (Citation2020) and Li et al. (Citation2022). FOMASs with uncertain nonlinear dynamics and external disturbance are considered in networks containing a DST. The unmeasurable states are estimated by a reduced-order state observer. The unknown nonlinearities are approximated by FLSs and the FLS weight vectors are estimated adaptively. Compared with existing works, state feedback-based schemes are considered in Wang et al. (Citation2020), Wang and Liang (Citation2018) and Yang, Yu, and Zheng (Citation2021), a linearly parameterizable models is considered in Sheng et al. (Citation2018), the models without external disturbances are considered in Zhao et al. (Citation2022); Chen, Liu, and Yu (Citation2020) and Li et al. (Citation2022), only undirected network topology is considered in Wang and Dong (Citation2022a).
Different from Yang, Yu, and Zheng (Citation2021), Wei, Li, and Tong (Citation2020), Wang et al. (Citation2021), Wang, Dong, and Xi (Citation2020) and Qu, Tong, and Li (Citation2018), FOMASs with partial states and output constraints are studied in this paper and the BLFs are used to solve the time-varying constraint problems. Compared with similar works, the case of FSCs were considered in Yang, Yu, and Zheng (Citation2021), Wei, Li, and Tong (Citation2020) and Wang et al. (Citation2021) with constant boundary functions, and the output constraint problem is considered in Wang, Dong, and Xi (Citation2020) and Qu, Tong, and Li (Citation2018) as special cases of this work.
The rest of this paper is arranged as follows: The preliminaries are introduced and the problem is stated in Section 2. The reduced-order observer and the ETC scheme are designed in Section 3 and 4, respectively. The stability analysis and parameter selection, a simulation example are given in Section 5 and 6, respectively. Section 7 summarizes the paper.
Notations:
, , , and represent the sets of non-zero real numbers, real numbers, positive integers, -dimensional real vector and complex numbers, respectively. For a matrix , denotes is positive definite, its minimum and maximum eigenvalue are denoted by and , respectively. represents the minimum singular value of a matrix. Denote by the 2-norm of a vector or matrix. is the natural logarithm.
Problem Statement
Fractional Calculus
Definition 2.1
(Podlubny Citation1998): The Caputo fractional derivative of a continuously differentiable function is defined as
where with and . Define the fractional integral as
Property 2.1 (Podlubny Citation1998): For constants , and , one has
Definition 2.2
(Podlubny Citation1998): The Mittag–Leffler function is defined as
where , and are two parameters. When , .
Property 2.2. (Gong, Wang, and Lan Citation2019): For and , one has
Lemma 2.1.
(Gong and Lan Citation2018): For continuous and differentiable function , one has
where and matrix .
Lemma 2.2.
(Zouari et al. Citation2021): For , continuously differentiable functions and satisfying , one has
Graph Theory
The interaction among agents can be described by a graph. Let be a directed graph, in which corresponding to agents and are the set of nodes and edges, respectively. Let be the set of neighbors of agent . The pair means that agent can obtain information from agent . is the weighted adjacency matrix, where , if ; , otherwise. Assume that graph is simple, i.e., . Let with and the Laplacian matrix . It is well known that has one simple zero eigenvalue and all nonzero eigenvalues have positive real parts if and only if graph has a DST.
Let the leader be a node labeled by zero, and with , if agent being leader’s neighbor, , otherwise.
Assumption 2.1.
Graph has a DST rooted at node 0.
System Description
Consider the following FOMASs:
where and is the system state. Let be the full states, which is partitioned into two parts, i.e., the constrained states with satisfying , where , , is a time-varying boundary function and the unconstrained states . with is an unknown continuous function and satisfies the following Assumption 2.3. is the bounded external disturbances satisfying with being a constant. is the system output, which is assumed to be the only available data. is the saturated controller described by
where and are known constants and is the input of the saturation controller and will be designed later.
For convenience of stability analysis, is approximated by the following smooth function
and then is written as
where is the approximation error satisfying .
Remark 1. The actual saturation controller (7) is approximated by a smooth function given in (8) with an approximation error in (9). The smooth approximation of will be applied to construct the reduced-order state observer in Section 3 and (9) will be used in the stability analysis.
Substituting (9) into (6), one has
The purpose of this work is to design an output feedback-based distributed saturated controller for FOMAS to ensure the following control objectives via adaptive ETC strategy:
Practical finite-time tracking can be achieved, i.e., , as , .
All signals are bounded and the PSCs are never breached, i.e., , .
The Zeno behavior does not occur.
Assumption 2.2.
, and are continuous and bounded and satisfy , and with , , being positive constants.
Assumption 2.3
satisfies for , where is an unknown continuous function.
The following lemmas are needed for the subsequent finite-time stability analysis.
Lemma 2.3.
(Polycarpou and Ioannou Citation1996): For and any , one has
with .
Lemma 2.4.
(Zhou et al. Citation2019): Let , and be two real numbers with . For any , one has
Lemma 2.5.
(Huang, Lin, and Yang Citation2005): For , one has
Lemma 2.6.
(Qian and Lin Citation2001): For any variables and , positive constants , , , one has
Lemma 2.7.
(Liu et al. Citation2022): For , consider the FOSs with . If there exist a positive-definite and continuous function , - class function , and constants , , with and being odds, satisfying
and
then, the considered system is practical finite-time stable with settling time
with and , i.e., as with a sufficient small constant .
Remark 2. Note that most of the existing works focus on MASs with integer-order dynamic. However, the results of integer-order system cannot be applied to FOSs directly. From Lemma 2.7, one has , for .
Lemma 2.8.
Consider the fractional differential equation , where , and are constants, is a positive function. If , then holds for .
Proof.
The solution of the fractional differential equation is
According to Property 2.2, we have as and as . Since and , thus the integral part of Equationequation (16)(16) (16) is also positive. Therefore, if , holds for .□
Lemma 2.9.
(Wang et al. Citation2008): Let with being constants. Then, the inequality holds for .
Lemma 2.10.
(Polendo and Qian Citation2005): For , is a constant, one has
FLS
Lemma 2.11.
(Wang et al. Citation2013): For and a continuous function on a compact set , there exists a FLS such that
where is the ideal weight vector of the FLS with being the number of the fuzzy rules, is its basis function vector, where is a Gaussian membership function with and , , being its center and width, respectively.
From Lemma 2.11, an unknown nonlinear function can be approximated by a FLS as
where is the approximate parameter vector and is the approximation error.
In order to simplify the design procedure, let
where is an unknown positive scalar to be estimated. Let be the estimation of and be the estimated error.
BLF
To handle the PSCs in the system, a BLF
is employed for control design, where is some error variable, which is restricted by .
Lemma 2.12.
(Ren et al. Citation2010): If with given , then
Observer Design
A reduced-order state observer is designed as follows:
to estimate the unmeasurable state variables, where is the estimation of , .
Let , , one has
where
Choose positive parameters , , , such that matrix is Hurwitz. Thus, there exists a matrix such that with a given matrix .
Construct the Lyapunov function as
The fractional-order derivative of is
According to Assumption 2.3, Lemma 2.4 and 2.10, one has
Similarly,
and
From (26) to (29), one has
where .
Adaptive Finite-Time ETC Design
In this section, a new adaptive finite-time ETC scheme is proposed. Let
and
where is the local consensus error, , and are defined error variables, and are the auxiliary design signal and the virtual controller respectively, which will be designed later. A fractional-order filter is constructed as
with being its output, and being a constant.
Finite-Time Controller Design
Step 1: Taking the fractional-order derivative of , one has
Let
where is defined in (20), is a time-varying boundary function which will be given later and is a constant.
According to Lemma 2.1 and Lemma 2.2, one has
The Lyapunov function is selected as
From (36) to (39) and Property 2.1, one has
where
with , and being a constant.
Remark 3. The hyperbolic tangent function is used in the derivation of (40) to avoid singularity. Based on L’Hospital rule, one has . Thus, function has no singularity at and can be approximated by an FLS. The last term in (40) will be dealt later.
Since is unknown, it is approximated by an FLS as
where the approximation error satisfies with being a constant.
According to Lemma 2.4, one has
where is a constant.
Substituting (42) into (40), one has
Similarly,
and
Substituting (44)–(46) into (43), one has
where .
Select the virtual controller as
and the fractional-order adaptive law as
where and are design parameters.
Remark 4 From Lemma 2.8, the adaptive law designed in (49) can guarantee that for given .
According to (47)–(49), one has
where .
Step : From (23), (32) and (34), one has
Let
where is a boundary function which will be given later.
Thus,
The Lyapunov function is given by
From (51) to (54), one has
Similarly,
By the definition of , is a continuous function , , defined on some compact set. Thus, with being a constant. From (34) and (35), one has
According to Lemma 2.4, one has
where is a constant.
Substituting (56) and (58) into (55), one has
The virtual controller is designed as
where is a design parameter.
According to (59)–(60), one has
Step +1: From (23), (32) and (34), one has
Let
Taking the fractional-order derivative of , one has
The Lyapunov function is selected as
From (62) to (65), one has
Similarly,
From (58) and (67), one has
The virtual controller is designed as
where is a design parameter.
From (68) to (69), one has
Step : From (23), (32) and (34), one has
Let
Taking the fractional-order derivative of , one has
The Lyapunov function is selected as
From (71) to (74), one has
Similarly,
From (58) and (76), one has
Select the virtual controller as
where is a design parameter.
From (77) to (78), one has
Step n: From (33),
where the auxiliary signal is designed as
The fractional-order derivative of is
Let
Taking the fractional-order derivative of , one has
Construct the Lyapunov function as
From (82) to (85), one has
The ETC scheme is designed as
and
where , , , , satisfying are known parameters, is the virtual controller and is the sampling error. When the above trigger condition (89) is satisfied, the control signal is updated and remains constant within the next time interval.
Similar to Wang and Dong (Citation2022a), one has
where is a continuous function satisfying .
Thus,
which means that
Substituting (58) and (92) into (86) yields that
Select the virtual controller as
where is a design parameter.
From (93) to (94), one gets
Obviously,
Using Lemma 2.12, one has
According to Lemma 2.4, one has
Substituting (96)–(98) into (95), one gets
Using Lemma 2.6, one gets
which means that
Similarly,
and
Substituting (101)–(103) into (99), one gets
As a result, it follows from (104) that
where
and
by selecting appropriate parameters.
Remark 5. Note that the last term in (105) is indefinite. A discussion will be conducted in Section 5 using Lemma 2.9.
Remark 6. The time-varying PSCs are considered in this work rather than constant FSCs, which requires computing the fractional-order derivatives of the time-varying constraint boundary and then increases the difficulty of stability analysis.
To illustrate the previous design, the flowchart of the control system structure is shown in .
Stability Analysis and Parameter Selection
Stability Analysis
Theorem 5.1.
Consider a FOMAS given in (6). Under Assumption 2.1–2.3, virtual control functions (48), (60), (69), (78) and (94), reduced-order state observer (23), fractional-order adaptive laws (49) and the ETC mechanism (87)–(89), the practical finite-time output tracking can be achieved, i.e., , as . In addition, the following conditions can be guaranteed:
The PSCs are never breached, i.e.,
All the system signals are bounded.
No Zeno behavior occurs.
Proof.
Let’s prove it in two cases.
Case 1: If , it follows from Lemma 2.9 that . Since by its definition, thus, is negative in this case. Then inequality (105) is simplified as
According to Lemma 2.7, it follows from (106) that for ,
with the settling time
It can be seen from the definition of that
Thus,
Case 2: If , one has , which means that
From the definition of , let with being a positive constant. Therefore,
Then, (105) can be rewritten as
where .
Similar to the , for ,
with the settling time
According to the and , it can be obtained from (110) and (111) that . Let , and . EquationEquation (31)(31) (31) can be rewritten in vector form as . It follows from that . Then, one gets . Therefore, the practical finite-time output tracking can be achieved.
Since (113) in has the same form as (106) in , the following proof only considers and can be similarly proved.
i). According to Assumption 2.2, . Thus, . Choosing , one has .
According to (107), one has
Thus,
Similarly,
By the boundedness of , one has with being a constant. Since , it follows from (110), (117) and (118) that , we have . Similarly, we can obtain that by choosing , . Therefore, the PSCs are never breached.
ii). According to (107), one has
Then,
Similarly,
From (110), (117), (118), (120) and (121), we obtain that , , , the error variables , , and are bounded. is also bounded due to . Since , one has , thus is bounded. Similarly, , are bounded. Since the boundedness of , and , is also bounded due to , . As a result, all the system signals are bounded.
iii). We just need to prove that . Computing the fractional-order derivative of , we have
It is inferred from (88) that is continuous on some compact set. Therefore, with constant . Noting that and , we obtain that the lower bound of satisfies , which implies that the Zeno behavior is ruled out.□
Parameter Selection
The guideline of the parameter selections is given as follows:
Consider an FOMAS with the fractional-order satisfying . The leader signal satisfying Assumption 2.2, the saturation limits and , and the time-varying constraint boundary function , , are given. For a given directed interconnected graph satisfying Assumption 2.1, the matrices , , and can be obtained.
Step 1: Set the initial values of , , , , , and , , , satisfying for , and for . The initial state of the fractional-order filter satisfying , , , can be obtained by (48), (60), (69) and (78).
Step 2: Define fuzzy If-Then rules, select appropriate fuzzy membership functions and obtain the fuzzy basis functions. Thus, a FLS can be constructed.
Step 3: Choose parameters , , , such that matrix is Hurwitz. For a given matrix , solve the Lyapunov equation to obtain a positive definite matrix solution .
Step 4: Select appropriate boundary function , , , satisfy and , .
Step 5: Select suitable constants , , , , for , and , for , to meet , , , , for , and for .
Step 6: Solve the fractional differential equations according to system in (6), state observer in (23), fractional-order filter in (35) and the fractional-order adaptive laws in (49), in which the virtual controllers are calculated according to (48), (60), (69), (78) and (94), the ETC scheme according to (87) and (89) with the intermediate control function (88), and the saturated controller according to (7).
Example
An example is given in this section to demonstrate the correctness of the proposed control algorithm. In this example, the considered FOMASs consist of a leader and four followers, labeled by , respectively. The interconnection graph of five agents is given in .
For simplicity, assume that all edges of the interconnected graph have weights of 1. Thus, , and
Consider a FOMAS consisting of four single-machine-infinite bus power subsystem (Song et al. Citation2019) described by
Let , , , , , , , , , and set , , , , . System (123) can be rewritten as
where . The leader signal is . are required to be constrained by time-varying boundaries , , and , respectively. are unconstrained.
The saturated controller given as
Choose parameters , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , . Set initial states , , , , .
The simulation results of example are shown in . The curves of and are shown in . The curves of the tracking errors are given in . It can be watched from that can track in a short time with a good tracking performance. provide the trajectories of the constrained state and the local consensus error , respectively. It can be watched from that they never exceed their restricted boundaries and . depict the trajectories of the system state and its estimation . It can be seen from that they are bounded. give the trajectories of and its saturation input . It can be seen from that when the required control input are large, the actual saturation control inputs works well. The inter-event time and the trigger time instant of four agents are shown in . Obviously, the Zeno behavior is excluded successfully.
To highlight the advantages of this work, a comparison with ETC scheme proposed in Yang et al. (Citation2022) is conducted with the same parameters. shows the trajectories of and with ETC scheme proposed in Yang et al. (Citation2022). The trigger numbers of the ETC scheme proposed in Yang et al. (Citation2022) and this paper are shown in . As can be seen from and , even though more general cases are considered in this paper, there is no significant difference in control performance, but the number of triggers using the ETC scheme proposed in this paper is significantly less than that using the ETC scheme proposed in Yang et al. (Citation2022)
Remark 7. The saturation controller (7) is realized with its input defined in (87)–(89). The initial values of the constrained states should be set within the constraint boundaries. Under the proposed control scheme, all error variables converging to a neighborhood of the origin in finite time is ensured. In addition, as can be seen from , although the required control feedback is large, the actual saturation control can still achieve satisfactory control effect.
Conclusion
An output feedback-based fuzzy adaptive finite-time ETC problem is investigated in this paper for a FOMAS with PSCs and IS in directed networks. A reduced-order state observer is designed to estimate the unmeasurable states. FLS is used to tackle the nonlinearity and the unknown parameters are estimated adaptively. A fractional-order filter is constructed to avoid repeatedly calculating the high-order derivatives of the virtual controllers. By introducing an appropriate BLF, the designed ETC scheme can ensure state constraints are not breached and the communication resources can be reduced. By analyzing the stability, it is guaranteed that finite-time tracking can be achieved with a bounded error, all signals of system are bounded and the Zeno behavior does not occur. Finally, a numerical example is given to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed control scheme.
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