Cooperative output regulation for networked multi-agent systems based on the self-tuning adaptive distributed observer

摘要

In this paper, we first propose a self-tuning adaptive distributed observer for a multi-agent system, which is capable of providing the estimation of the leader's signal to various followers without assuming all the followers know the system matrix of the leader and which avoids calculating the observer gain off-line. We then further develop an adaptive distributed control law to solve the cooperative output regulation problem for linear heterogeneous multi-agent systems. This control law offers two advantages in that it makes the least use of the information of the network and the information of the leader system, and it avoids calculating the observer gain.