Output Regulation of a Class of Switched Linear Multi-Agent Systems: a Distributed Observer Approach

Abstract In this paper, we consider the output regulation problem of a class of linear switched multi-agent systems. The problem can be viewed as a generalization of several control problems of the multi-agent systems. Due to the limited information exchanges of different subsystems, the problem does not permit a centralized approach. By devising a distributed observer, we can solve the problem by both state feedback control with feedforward and measurement output feedback control with feedforward. As a special case of our problem, we will show that our control design can solve the linear leader-following consensus problem efficiently.

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