Leader-following consensus of second-order multi-agent systems with a smart leader
Honggang Liu, Zhongxin Liu, Zengqiang Chen · 2017
In this paper, the consensus problem for second-order leader-following multi-agent systems with a smart leader is investigated. The smart leader tracks a desired system target so that the followers can follow the leader and there state can reach consensus finally. When the average distance among the smart leader and its neighboring followers increases, the smart leader can utilize the feedback information of its neighboring followers to adjust its own state, which can reduce the tracking errors among the smart leader and followers. As an extension, the influence of the smart leader on the controller costs of the multi-agent system is studied. Finally, several comparative experiments are given to illustrate the superiority of the smart leader.