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This paper deals with the leader-follower consensus problem for a class of nonlinear multiagent systems. All agents have identical nonlinear dynamics in the strict feedback form with Lipschitz growth condition. Both full state consensus protocol and dynamic output consensus protocol are provided. It is shown that under a connected undirected information communication topology, the proposed protocols can solve the leader-follower consensus problem. Two consensus protocol design procedures are presented and a numerical example is given to illustrate the proposed protocols.
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This work was supported by the Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant 60674029.
Xing-Hu Wang received his B.S. degree in Information and Computing Science from Shandong University at Weihai in 2007. He is currently a Ph.D. Candidate in Control Theory and Engineering in University of Science and Technology of China. His research interests include nonlinear control.
Hai-Bo Ji received his B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Zhejiang University and Beijing University in 1984 and 1990, respectively. He is currently a Professor in the Dept. of Automation, USTC. His research interests include nonlinear control and adaptive control.
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Wang, XH., Ji, HB. Leader-follower consensus for a class of nonlinear multi-agent systems. Int. J. Control Autom. Syst. 10, 27–35 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12555-012-0104-3
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