Finite-Time Containment Control for Second-Order Multiagent Systems Under Directed Topology

• Published in: IEEE transactions on circuits and systems. II, Express briefs Vol. 61; no. 8; pp. 619 - 623
• Main Authors: He, Xiaoyan, Wang, Qingyun, Yu, Wenwu
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York IEEE 01-08-2014; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Circuits and systems; Containment; Control systems; Dynamic tests; Dynamical systems; Dynamics; Followers; Heuristic algorithms; Multi-agent systems; Multiagent systems; Network topology; Nonlinear dynamics; Protocols; Topology; terminal sliding-model control; finite-time control; Containment control; multiagent system
• ISSN: 1549-7747; 1558-3791
• DOI: 10.1109/TCSII.2014.2327473

This brief investigates the finite-time containment control for second-order multiagent systems with multiple dynamic leaders under a fixed directed communication topology. In particular, the studied systems are composed of the multiple dynamic leaders with bounded unknown acceleration inputs and the followers with bounded disturbances. A new continuous nonlinear containment control protocol is constructed via a nonsingular terminal sliding-mode scheme. The proposed protocol can effectively drive the states of the followers to track the convex hull spanned by those of the leaders within the finite time.