Predictor-feedback synthesis in coordinate-free formation control under time-varying delays

• Autores: Antonio Javier González Martínez, Rosario Aragues, Gonzalo López-Nicolás, Carlos Sagüés
• Localización: Automatica: A journal of IFAC the International Federation of Automatic Control, ISSN 0005-1098, Nº. 113, 2020
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This paper investigates new coordinate-free formation control strategies of multi-agent systems to overcome the negative effects of time delays. To this end, we present a single predictor-feedback scheme to compensate the multiple communication delays, assumed to be unknown but bounded and arbitrarily-fast time-varying. Although delays cannot exactly be compensated due to time-varying delay mismatches, the trade-off between robustness and convergence speed can be notably improved if the control gain is suitably designed. Hence, with the objective of enlarging the time-varying delay interval for a given convergence speed, an LMI-based iterative algorithm is presented to solve the control gain synthesis.