Time-varying group formation tracking control for second-order multi-agent systems with communication delays and multiple leaders

Abstract Time-varying group formation tracking control problems for second-order multi-agent systems with communication delays and multiple leaders are addressed in this paper. The followers are divided into multiple subgroups, and each subgroup is driven to complete the time-varying sub-formation and to track the average state of entire leaders simultaneously. A distributed protocol that considers communication delays and uses only local interaction information is presented. According to Lyapunov-like stability approach, sufficient conditions for the multi-agent systems to realize time-varying group formation tracking with multiple leaders are given. A variable-substitution based method is developed to get the unknown feedback matrix of the protocol and an algorithm is given to summarize the steps to construct the protocol. The theoretical results can be used in the problem of multiple targets enclosed by several subgroups of unmanned aerial vehicles. Finally, numerical examples are applied to verify the feasibility of the proposed results.

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