@inproceedings{bd0c14d45d1c42f993bf7d58d66539cc,
title = "Distributed control of a class of second-order nonlinear multi-agent systems with switching topologies",
abstract = "This paper proposes a distributed control result for strong output-agreement of a class of second-order nonlinear multi-agent systems. The nonlinear dynamics of the agents are handled by a class of nonlinear control laws. It is first proved that each controlled agent admits a positively invariant set if the outputs of the neighboring agents are bounded. Then, by showing the existence of a positively invariant set for the multi-agent system, the state boundedness of the multi-agent system is guaranteed, and strong output-agreement is proved by showing that the size of the positively invariant set is reducing. An example with simulation is employed to show the effectiveness of the main result.",
keywords = "Distributed Control, Multi-agent systems, Nonlinear Dynamics, Strong Output-Agreement, Switching Topologies",
author = "Zhengyan Qin and Tengfei Liu and Jiang, {Zhong Ping}",
note = "Funding Information: This work was supported in part by NSFC grants 61522305, 61633007, 61374042 and 61533007, in part by NSF grant ECCS-1501044, and in part by State Key Laboratory of Intelligent Control and Decision of Complex Systems at BIT. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2017 Technical Committee on Control Theory, CAA.; 36th Chinese Control Conference, CCC 2017 ; Conference date: 26-07-2017 Through 28-07-2017",
year = "2017",
month = sep,
day = "7",
doi = "10.23919/ChiCC.2017.8028731",
language = "English (US)",
series = "Chinese Control Conference, CCC",
publisher = "IEEE Computer Society",
pages = "8656--8661",
editor = "Tao Liu and Qianchuan Zhao",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 36th Chinese Control Conference, CCC 2017",
}