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This paper studies the distributed time-varying convex optimization problem for a class of nonlinear multiagent systems. An auxiliary system is first designed to estimate the global optimal state and its high-order derivatives by means of a distributed algorithm. Relying on this auxiliary system, the solution of the distributed time-varying convex optimization problem is converted into that of a tracking problem for a class of nonlinear systems. A tracking control scheme is then proposed based on the back-stepping strategy. Simulations are provided to validate the theoretical results. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is devoted to distributed continuous-time and discrete-time optimization problems with nonuniform convex constraint sets and nonuniform stepsizes for general differentiable convex objective functions. The communication graphs are not required to be strongly connected at any time, the gradients of the local objective functions are not required to be bounded when their independent variables tend to infinity, and the constraint sets are not required to be bounded. For continuous-time multiagent systems, a distributed continuous algorithm is first introduced where the stepsizes and the convex constraint sets are both nonuniform. It is shown that all agents reach a consensus while minimizing the team objective function even when the constraint sets are unbounded. After that, the obtained results are extended to discrete-time multiagent systems and then the case where each agent remains in a corresponding convex constraint set is studied. To ensure all agents to remain in a bounded region, a switching mechanism is introduced in the algorithms. It is shown that the distributed optimization problems can be solved, even though the discretization of the algorithms might deviate the convergence of the agents from the minimum of the objective functions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, we consider the distributed containment control problem for multiagent systems with unknown nonlinear dynamics. More specifically, we focus on multiple second-order nonlinear systems and networked Lagrangian systems. We first study the distributed containment control problem for multiple second-order nonlinear systems with multiple dynamic leaders in the presence of unknown nonlinearities and external disturbances under a general directed graph that characterizes the interaction among the leaders and the followers. A distributed adaptive control algorithm with an adaptive gain design based on the approximation capability of neural networks is proposed. We present a necessary and sufficient condition on the directed graph such that the containment error can be reduced as small as desired. As a byproduct, the leaderless consensus problem is solved with asymptotical convergence. Because relative velocity measurements between neighbors are generally more difficult to obtain than relative position measurements, we then propose a distributed containment control algorithm without using neighbors’ velocity information. A two-step Lyapunov-based method is used to study the convergence of the closed-loop system. Next, we apply the ideas to deal with the containment control problem for networked unknown Lagrangian systems under a general directed graph. All the proposed algorithms are distributed and can be implemented using only local measurements in the absence of communication. Finally, simulation examples are provided to show the effectiveness of the proposed control algorithms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]