Simultaneous stabilization and synchronization of non-identical linear multi-agent systems with switching topology

• Main Authors: Hu, Guoqiang, Xie, Lihua
• Other Authors: School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Electrical and electronic engineering
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/97880; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/12297
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

In this paper, we study a simultaneous stabilization and synchronization (SSS) problem for one class of linear multi-agent systems with non-identical agent dynamics and switching information-exchange topology. We show that a single control loop can be designed for each agent to enable some internal agent states to be stabilized while some other external states to be synchronized. We design a distributed control law based on local measurements and information exchanged from neighboring agents to enable SSS. The sufficient conditions to achieve SSS are obtained by properly designing a SSS reference system, followed by specific approaches of designing the control gain matrices. An example and simulation results are provided to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.