Order-Preserved Preset-Time Cooperative Control: A Monotone System-Based Approach

Boda Ning; Qing-Long Han

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B. Ning and Q.-L. Han, “Order-preserved preset-time cooperative control: A monotone system-based approach,” IEEE/CAA J. Autom. Sinica, vol. 9, no. 9, pp. 1603–1611, Sept. 2022. doi: 10.1109/JAS.2022.105440

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B. Ning and Q.-L. Han, “Order-preserved preset-time cooperative control: A monotone system-based approach,” IEEE/CAA J. Autom. Sinica, vol. 9, no. 9, pp. 1603–1611, Sept. 2022. doi: 10.1109/JAS.2022.105440

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Order-Preserved Preset-Time Cooperative Control: A Monotone System-Based Approach

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Center for Smart Infrastructure and Digital Construction, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, VIC 3122, Australia
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School of Science, Computing and Engineering Technologies, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, VIC 3122, Australia

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Boda Ning (Member, IEEE) received the B.Eng. degree in automatic control from East China University of Science and Technology in 2011, the M.Sc. degree (with Distinction) in control systems from University of Manchester, U.K., in 2012, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical and electronic engineering from Swinburne University of Technology, Australia, in 2017.He is currently a Senior Research Engineer with Swinburne University of Technology, where he was a Research Fellow from September 2017 to March 2019. From April 2019 to December 2019, he was a Research Fellow with Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT University), Australia. From September 2010 to May 2011, he was an exchange student with University of Dundee, U.K.. His current research interests include cooperative control of multi-agent systems, mobile robots, and automation in construction

Qing-Long Han (Fellow, IEEE) received the B.Sc. degree in mathematics from Shandong Normal University in 1983, and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in control engineering from East China University of Science and Technology in 1992 and 1997, respectively.Professor Han is Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research Quality) and a Distinguished Professor at Swinburne University of Technology, Australia. He held various academic and management positions at Griffith University and Central Queensland University, Australia. His research interests include networked control systems, multi-agent systems, time-delay systems, smart grids, unmanned surface vehicles, and neural networks.Professor Han was awarded The 2021 Norbert Wiener Award (the Highest Award in systems science and engineering, and cybernetics), The 2021 M. A. Sargent Medal (the Highest Award of the Electrical College Board of Engineers Australia), The 2021 IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica Norbert Wiener Review Award, The 2020 IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC) Society Andrew P. Sage Best Transactions Paper Award, The 2020 IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics Outstanding Paper Award, and The 2019 IEEE SMC Society Andrew P. Sage Best Transactions Paper Award.Professor Han is a Member of the Academia Europaea (The Academy of Europe) and a Fellow of The Institution of Engineers Australia. He is a Highly Cited Researcher in both Engineering and Computer Science (Clarivate Analytics, 2019–2021). He has served as an AdCom Member of IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IES), a Member of IEEE IES Fellow Committee, and Chair of IEEE IES Technical Committee on Networked Control Systems. He is Co-Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, Deputy Editor-in-Chief of IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica, Co-Editor of Australian Journal of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, an Associate Editor for 12 international journals, including the IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, IEEE Industrial Electronics Magazine, Control Engineering Practice, and Information Sciences, and a Guest Editor for 13 special issues
Corresponding author: Qing-Long Han, e-mail: qhan@swin.edu.au
¹ The term of cooperative here is different from that in cooperative control (e.g., in [25]–[29]) for multi-agent systems.
Received Date: 2021-11-14
Revised Date: 2021-12-07
Accepted Date: 2021-12-23

Available Online: 2022-03-08

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This paper is concerned with order-preserved preset-time cooperative control of multi-agent systems with directed graphs. A novel monotone system-based approach is proposed to preserve the initial order of agents while guaranteeing the preset-time state agreement. Specifically, three different distributed controllers together with sufficient conditions are designed to realize leaderless consensus, leader-following consensus, and containment control, respectively. The proposed controllers facilitate preset-time deployment of agents in practical scenarios with collision avoidance requirement. Comparison studies through a numerical example are carried out to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed controllers.
- Collision-avoidance,
- consensus,
- multi-agent systems,
- preset-time control

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¹ The term of cooperative here is different from that in cooperative control (e.g., in [25]–[29]) for multi-agent systems.

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Preset-time consensus of multi-agent systems with a guarantee of collision-free
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Order-preserved preset-time cooperative control with directed graphs

Order-Preserved Preset-Time Cooperative Control: A Monotone System-Based Approach

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