Search

In this paper, the practical output consensus problem for heterogeneous high-order leader-follower multi-agent systems under directed communication topology containing a directed spanning tree and subject to large-scale mismatched disturbances, mismatched uncertainties, and measurement noises is addressed. By introducing a reversible state transformation without changing the output, the actual total disturbance affecting output performance of each agent and matched with the control input of the transformed system is extracted and estimated by extended state observers. Then, the control protocols based on estimates of extended state observers, are designed by combing the output feedback control ones to obtain output consensus and feedforward compensators to attenuating the total disturbance of each agent actively. It is shown with a rigorous proof that the outputs of all followers can track practically the output of the leader, and all the states of the leader-follower multi-agent systems are bounded. Some numerical simulations are performed to verify the validity of the control protocols and theoretical result.

In this paper, linear and nonlinear event-triggered extended state observers are designed for a class of uncertain stochastic systems driven by bounded and colored noises. Two event-generators with an ensured positive minimum inter-event time for every sample path solution of the stochastic systems, are proposed for the designs of linear and nonlinear event-triggered extended state observers, respectively. The mean square and almost sure convergence of the estimation errors of unmeasured state and stochastic total disturbance including internal uncertainty and external stochastic noises is presented with rigorous theoretical proofs. Compared with the linear event-triggered extended state observer, the theoretical results show that the nonlinear one via homogeneity possesses higher estimation accuracy but is at the price of higher triggering frequency. Some numerical simulations are performed to authenticate the theoretical results.

Considering the control problem for nonlinear uncertain systems, the tolerable range of uncertain control input gain is a fundamental issue. The paper presents the necessary and sufficient condition for the well-performed closed-loop system based on active disturbance rejection control (ADRC) design. Via the proposed necessary and sufficient condition, the maximum tolerable range of the uncertain control gain is quantitatively presented, which reveals the capability of ADRC to handle the uncertainties related with control input. Moreover, under the proposed necessary and sufficient condition, both the transient performance and the steady state property of the ADRC based closed-loop system are rigorously analyzed., Comment: 8 pages, 3 figures