Distributed Cooperative Control of Multi-Agent Systems: 

A Consensus Region Approach

Time：2017.3.30

Location: 6th floor, Bld#3, SCUT

Speaker: Zhongkui Li,Peking University

Abstract：

   Cooperative control of multi-agent systems (multiple autonomous vehicles) has received compelling attention from various scientific communities due to its broad applications in such areas as satellite formation flying, sensor networks, surveillance and reconnaissance, air traffic control, and future autonomous combat systems. For the consensus control problem, the main task is to design appropriate distributed consensus protocols. Designing appropriate distributed protocols is generally a challenging task, especially for multi-agent systems with complex dynamics, due to the interplay of the agent dynamics, the communication graph among agents, and the cooperative control laws. The purpose of this talk is to present our recent results on designing distributed consensus protocols for multi-agent systems with general linear agent dynamics. A unified approach built on the consensus region notion will be given. The traditional observer-based controller for a single agent will be extended to the multi-agent system setting. Distributed adaptive controllers will be introduced to achieve consensus in a fully distributed fashion.