학술논문

Fully Distributed Consensus of Multiple Euler–Lagrange Systems Under Switching Directed Graphs Using Only Position Measurements
Document Type
Periodical
Source
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control IEEE Trans. Automat. Contr. Automatic Control, IEEE Transactions on. 69(3):1781-1788 Mar, 2024
Subject
Signal Processing and Analysis
Directed graphs
Switches
Position measurement
Multi-agent systems
Manipulator dynamics
Laplace equations
Heuristic algorithms
Adaptive control
consensus
Euler–Lagrange system
multiagent systems
switching directed graphs
Language
ISSN
0018-9286
1558-2523
2334-3303
Abstract
In this note, the distributed leaderless consensus problem of multiple Euler–Lagrange systems under switching directed graphs using only position measurements is investigated. We adopt a model reference adaptive consensus strategy to assign each agent a reference to track, which transforms the consensus problem into a trajectory tracking problem. Due to the absence of velocity information, a velocity filter and a third-order linear reference model are designed for each agent. The proposed consensus algorithm only requires the position information and only the relative position information is interchanged among the neighboring agents. It is shown that the agents can achieve position consensus under a uniformly connected switching directed graph in the absence of global gains, in which sense the proposed algorithm is fully distributed. The numerical simulations are performed to show the effectiveness of the theoretical results.