Prescribed-Time Observer-Based Fuzzy Adaptive Practical Prescribed-Time Formation Control of Nonlinear Multi-Agent Systems with Unmodeled Dynamics

公式章 1 1 Prescribed-Time Observer-Based Fuzzy Adaptive Practical Prescribed-Time Formation Control of Nonlinear Multi-Agent Systems with Unmodeled Dynamics

 

Yuqi Gao1, Tao Li1,*, Yuanmei Wang2, Daixv Luo1, Zhiwei Wang1, Yuxiang She1

1School of Electrical Engineering and Automation, Hubei Normal University, Huangshi 435002, China

2 School of Electronic Information and Electrical Engineering, Yangtze University, Jingzhou 434023, China

*Corresponding author: taohust2008@163.com

 



Abstract

This article investigates the fuzzy adaptive practical prescribed-time formation control of nonlinear multi-agent systems with unmodeled dynamics based on a prescribed-time observer. At first, a prescribed-time observer is developed for followers to estimate the leader’s states. Then, fuzzy logic systems combined with adaptive methods are employed to approximate unknown continuous nonlinear functions. To compensate for the effects of unmodeled dynamics, a sliding-mode control strategy is incorporated. On these bases, a fuzzy adaptive practical prescribed-time formation control protocol is designed. This protocol guarantees that the formation error converges to a small neighborhood around zero within an arbitrary prespecified time. Finally, simulation results are provided to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach.

Keywords

Nonlinear multi-agent systems; Practical prescribed-time formation control; Unmodeled dynamics; Prescribed-time observer; Fuzzy adaptive method

1. Introduction

Distributed cooperative control of multi-agent systems (MASs) has attracted significant attention due to its broad applications [1-4]. Among various distributed cooperative control problems, formation control has been extensively investigated [5-8]. In recent years, increasing attention has been devoted to the study of practical formation control for multi-agent systems [9-12]. Reference [9] investigated the predefined-time practical formation control of MUSVs with lumped uncertainties. Reference [10] studied the fault-tolerant practical formation-containment control for multi-agent systems based on directed graphs. Practical prescribed-time bipartite time-varying formation control for multi-agent systems was investigated [11]. Reference [12] investigated the practical robust formation control for nonlinear multi-agent systems.

In practical applications, certain dynamical behaviors of the system cannot be accurately modeled, or even modeled at all, which inevitably gives rise to unmodeled dynamics [13]. However, the presence of unmodeled dynamics is not addressed in references [9-12]. Therefore, the practical formation control of multi-agent systems with unmodeled dynamics deserves further in-depth investigation. Besides, nonlinear multi-agent systems (MASs) offer greater flexibility in capturing such complexities and have attracted significant attention in practical applications [14-16]. Consequently, the investigation of practical formation control for nonlinear multi-agent systems with unmodeled dynamics is challenging.

 Fuzzy logic systems (FLSs) are effective tools for handling nonlinearities and unmodeled dynamics [17-19]. The combination of adaptive control and unmodeled dynamics has also become a focus of wide spread attention among scholars [20-22]. The integration of adaptive control and fuzzy logic systems has been extensively investigated to address nonlinearities and unmodeled dynamics of MASs [23-26]. Therefore, this paper addresses the practical formation control problem of nonlinear multi-agent systems with unmodeled dynamics by employing a combination of adaptive control and fuzzy logic systems.

In practical formation control problems, the states of the leaders may be unavailable, or only a subset of followers can directly access the leaders’ states. In response to this, reference [27] proposed a distributed asymptotic observer to estimate the leader's state. An asymptotic extended state observer was proposed to estimate the leader's state and reject external disturbances [28]. Although various finite-time observers and fixed-time observers have been proposed [29-32], guaranteeing state estimation within a prescribed time remains a challenging problem.

The convergence time of the MASs is an important index to measure the control performance. Traditional asymptotic practical formation control guarantees convergence only as time approaches infinity, which may not satisfy the requirements of real-time applications. To accelerate the convergence time, finite-time practical formation control is proposed [33-35]. But the settling time of finite-time practical formation control depends on the initial conditions. To address the limitation, fixed-time practical formation control is proposed [36-38]. However, the settling time of fixed-time practical formation control depends on the controller design parameters. Therefore, prescribed-time practical formation control has recently received increasing attention because the convergence time can be arbitrarily assigned and the convergence time is independent of both initial conditions and controller parameters.

Motivated by the above discussion, this article focuses on the prescribed-time observer-based fuzzy adaptive practical prescribed-time formation control design of nonlinear multi-agent systems with unmodeled dynamics. The rest parts of this paper are outlined as follows. Section 2 presents the problem formulation and necessary preliminaries. Section 3 constructs a prescribed-time observer, designs a fuzzy adaptive practical prescribed-time formation control protocol, develops an adaptive law, and conducts a rigorous stability analysis of the overall system. Section 4 provides simulation studies to validate the effectiveness of the proposed method. Finally, Section 5 concludes this article and outlines future research directions.

2. Problem formulation and some preliminaries

2.1. Graph theory 

Consider the directed graph , where is the set of nodes and is the set of edges. An edge  of the graph  indicates that agent  can receive information from agent  . The set of all neighbors is denoted by. The weighted adjacency matrix, where  if  can send information to  , otherwise . Self-loops are not allowed, i.e.,.

The in-degree matrix is defined as , where . The Laplacian matrix is defined as . A directed graph is said to contain a spanning tree if there exists a root node. Let  denote the leader adjacency matrix, where  if agent  can directly access the leader, and  otherwise.

2.2. A time-varying function

A time-varying function is proposed as follows [39]

                                                                                                                                                        

where  is a real number satisfying  ,  and  are the initial time and user-given settling time.

Consider the following system

                                                                                                                                                                    

where  is the state,  is a nonlinear vector bounded in time,  is the initial state.

2.3. Fuzzy logic systems

IF-THEN rules: If  is  is, then  is ,

Combining singleton fuzzifier, product inference, and center average defuzzifier, one has

                                                                                                                                                                        

where , and  are the FLS input and output, respectively. and  are membership functions of fuzzy sets  and.  is the number of inference rules.

Define  as

                                                                                                                                                                          

where  and .

The FLS can be rewritten as

                                                                                                                                                                                    

2.4. Problem formulation

First, consider the following nonlinear MASs with unmodeled dynamics of the ith follower

                                                                                                                                                          

where  are the position and velocity of the ith follower, respectively;  is the input of the ith follower;  is unknown smooth nonlinear functions with;  is an unknown nonlinear function; and  represents unmodeled dynamics.

Moreover, the dynamics of the leader is given as

                                                                                                                                                                                          

where are the position and velocity, respectively,  is the control input or the acceleration of the leader.

Assumption 1. For the unmodeled dynamics in (6), there exists a Lyapunov function  satisfying that

                                                                                                                                                                    

                                                                                                                                                  

where , , and  are functions of class , , and .

Definition 1. For an arbitrary prespecified time , the practical prescribed-time formation control of MASs (6) and (7) can be realized if the following condition holds:

                                                                                                                                                           

where  is a positive bounded constant, and  denotes the relative position between the leader and the agent .

2.5. Necessary lemmas

Lemma 1 [40]. There exists a positive definite matrix  such that   is positive definite, where  ,   , and  .

Lemma 2 [41]. There exists a Lyapunov function  for (2) such that

                                                                                                                                            

where,, is defined as

                                                                                                                                                             

then the origin of system (2) is globally prescribed-time stable with the prescribed-time  . Especially, the following solution can be obtained.

                                                                                                                                     

Lemma 3 [42]. For a continuous function  and  on a compact set , there exists an FLS such that

                                                                                                                                                                       

Lemma 4. For the Lyapunov function  , if

                                                                                                                                                                 

holds, the nonlinear MASs (6) and (7) can achieve practical prescribed-time formation control and satisfy  , where  , , and  are constants. The settling time is .

Proof. Let, and the proof process can be divided into two parts.

(1)    If , according to the Young's inequality, one has

                                                                                                                             

It follows from (15) that

                                                                                                                                     

Then, (16) and (17) imply that

                                                                                                                                                                     

From (18), one knows that is strictly monotonically decreasing when . Let  be the time that first goes into the region  (note that ). Integrating (18) from  to , one has

It obtains

Let  with ,one can obtain

Let , one knows that  and. Thus, there exists a constant  such that , and if , according to (17), one knows that . That is,  for all .

(2) If , similar to the above proof, one knows that  for all .

To sum up,  is a prescribed time for going into the region . This ends the proof.

Lemma 5 [43]. For the Lyapunov function  satisfying (9), there exists a finite time . For , the measurement of a dynamic signal can be represented as

                                                                                                                                                       

and for

                                                                                                                                                                         

where  is a negative function, , and .

Lemma 6 [44]. For , , , and , it holds that

                                                                                                                                                           

                                                                                                                                                                           

Lemma 7 [45]. For  and , one has

                                                                                                                                                                     

where  is a constant that satisfies  i.e., .

3. Main result

3.1. Prescribed-time observer

In this section, a prescribed-time observer is developed to estimate the leader’s states. The prescribed-time observer is designed as

                                                                                                                                                               

where

 are the observed states of .  are the observer gains,  are the control parameters. () is defined as

where .

Theorem 1. Using the prescribed-time observer (24) for system (6) and (7), if then the prescribed-time observer errors converge to zero within , where ,.

Proof. The convergence analysis will be implemented by following two steps. First of all, define , .  Then, the first equation of (24) can be rewritten as .

Consider the following Lyapunov function

                                                                                                                                                                           

Taking the derivative of  yields

                                                                                                                                                       

From (25), it obtains that . It concludes that . Then, substituting these inequalities into (26), we obtain

                                                                                                                                                               

where , i.e., . It thus follows that  converges to zero within .

Similar to the steps (25) and (26), it can be obtained that  converges to zero within . It can be derived that when , all the followers have access to the stat es of the leader.

Define the tracking error as

                                                                                                                                                                                 

whereis denoted the tracking error;  is the observed states of .

The formation error is defined as

                                                                                                                               

where.

3.2. Fuzzy adaptive practical prescribed-time formation control protocol

In this section, a fuzzy adaptive practical prescribed-time formation control protocol is developed for the nonlinear MASs in (6) and (7). The design details are as follows.

Define the sliding mode functions  as

                                                                                                                                                         

where , , ,  is the signum function, and  is designed as

                                                                                                                                                             

where  is a positive constant. Then, the derivative of  is

                                                                                                                                                               

To establish stability and synthesize the control protocol, the design is carried out in two steps. The step 1 is that we construct the Lyapunov function  based on the sliding surface to analyze the formation error dynamics, and the control protocol is synthesized by integrating fuzzy approximation, adaptive methods, and sliding mode compensation. The specific details are as follows.

Consider the Lyapunov function  as follows

                                                                                                                                                                                       

where .

The derivative of  is

                                                                                                                                                                       

where,,,,and.

From (33) and (34), one gets

                                                                                                       

where ,,and .

Applying Lemma 5 and Assumption 1, one gets

                                                                                                                                                                         

where.

Substituting (36) into (35), it obtains

                                                                                                                               

where , ,  and.

Using Lemma 3 to approximate  , we obtain

                                                                                                                                                                         

where and  represents the fuzzy basis function. is an ideal parameter vector of . For simplicity, we use  and  instead of and  in subsequence writing.

Then, using Young's inequality, one has

                                                                                                                                                                   

where  and .

Construct the fuzzy adaptive practical prescribed-time formation control protocol  as

                                                                        

where  is the minimum eigenvalue of the matrix , , .  and  are positive constants with  and .  is the estimate of .  and  are the sum of the th column of matrices  and .

Substituting (36)-(39) and Lemma 7 into (35), we obtain

                                                                                                   

where,,. represents a  matrix obtained by taking the  of each element.

The step 2 is that we introduce the Lyapunov function  for the adaptive parameters and develop an adaptive law to ensure boundedness and convergence of the estimation errors. The specific contents are as follows.

Consider the Lyapunov function  as

                                                                                                                                                                             

The derivative of  is

                                                                                                                                                                             

Construct the adaptive law  as

                                                                                                                                                                   

Substituting (44) into (43), we obtain

                                                                                                                       

3.3. Stability analysis

In this section, we discuss the stability of the system, from which Theorem 2 can be derived.

Theorem 2. Considering nonlinear MASs (6) and (7) with Assumptions 1 under directed graph, the fuzzy adaptive practical prescribed-time formation control protocol (40) and adaptive laws in (44) can guarantee that the practical prescribed-time formation control of MASs (6) and (7) can be realized within any prespecified time .

Proof. Construct the Lyapunov function  as

                                                                                                                                                         

The derivative of is

                                                                                       

Similar to (39), one gets

                                                                                                                                                             

                                                                                                                                                         

Then

                                                                                                                                           

Substituting (48)-(50) into (47), we obtain

                                                                                   

Then, one has

                                                                                                                                                     

Substituting (52) into (51), one obtains

                                                                                               

whereand

Substituting Lemma 6 into (53), one gets

                                                                                                         

where .

From the definitions of  and , one has

                                                                                                                                                                       

Then, one gets

                                                                                                                                                                             

As  approaches zero, both  and  approach zero. From the error dynamics and the designed control protocol, it can be derived that the time derivative of the tracking error  is bounded. Specifically, by combining MASs (6) and (7), the observer (24), and the control protocol (40), together with Assumption 1 and Lemma 5, there exists a positive constant  such that  Considering that the two regions where the sliding-mode term dominates are different, the analysis is conducted in two cases.

(1)    when , the sliding mode function  is dominated by the term . So we have:

                                                                                                                                                                             

This gives the bound on

                                                                                                                                                                             

(2)    when , the sliding mode function  is dominated by the term . So have:

                                                                                                                                                                         

This gives the bound on

                                                                                                                                                                                   

Combine (58) and (60), one gets

                                                                                                                                                             

Therefore, the error  can be simplified as

                                                                                                                                                       

Substituting (56) into (62), one obtains

                                                                                                                                                                           

where  is defined as: .

From the definition of formation error (29) and the prescribed-time observer, we have

                                                                                                                                                         

Hence, the practical prescribed-time formation control of MASs (6) and (7) is achieved within the prescribed-time , where  is an arbitrary prespecified time.

4. Numerical simulation                                                                                                 

Consider the following nonlinear MASs

                                                                                                                                                                       

where .

The initial values of followers are selected as

,

The leader’s trajectory is expressed as 

                                                                                                                                                             

The initial values of leader is selected as

The communication topology is shown in Fig. 1.

                                                                                                                                                                              

Fig 1. Communication topology.

The Laplacian matrix  is given as follows

,

Corresponding eigenvalues are obtained as,  and . Let, ,, , ,. It can be concluded that ,. Fig. 2 and Fig. 3 shows that the observer errors  and  converge to zero within the prescribed-time , .

      Fig. 2. Evolutions of the observer errors about velocity .

            Fig. 3. Evolutions of the observer errors about position .

The fuzzy membership functions are defined as

,

The  are

The fuzzy basis function vector is

The parameters are selected as , , , , , , , , , and  with, . The unmodeled dynamics  with  and .

It is shown from Fig. 4-6 that the practical prescribed-time formation control can be realized within the prescribed time  through the scheme designed. Fig. 4 illustrates the evolutionary trajectories of formation tracking. Fig. 5 shows that the formation error  can converges to a small neighborhood around the zero within the prescribed time . In addition, the trajectory of the adaptive parameter  is illustrated in Fig. 6.

Fig. 4. The evolutionary trajectories of formation tracking.

 

Fig. 5. Evolution of formation error .

 

Fig. 6. Evolution of adaptive parameters .

5. Conclusion

This article investigated the practical prescribed-time formation control problem of nonlinear MASs with unmodeled dynamics. A prescribed-time observer was designed to estimate the leader’s states. Fuzzy logic systems combined with adaptive methods were utilized to approximate unknown nonlinear functions. The properties of the sliding mode surface were exploited to compensate for uncertainties caused by unmodeled dynamics. The proposed fuzzy adaptive practical prescribed-time formation control protocol, which is based on observer information, guaranteed that the formation error converges to a small neighborhood near zero within an arbitrary prespecified time. Simulation results verified the effectiveness of the proposed approach. Future work will focus on extending the proposed method to multi-agent systems under DoS attacks.

Acknowledgements

This work is supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant 62473135.

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