An overview of coordinated control for multi-agent systems subject to input saturation

Xiaoling Wang, Housheng Su, Xiaofan Wang, Guanrong Chen
2016 Perspectives in Science  
Coordinated control of multi-agent systems has widespread application in engineering such as unmanned aerial vehicles and unmanned ground vehicles. Due to the fact that input saturation can lead a control system to deterioration and instability, a lot of efforts have been devoted to investigating this subject of great importance. The present article offers a survey of recent developments on coordinated control of multi-agents systems subject to input saturation. Some preliminaries about graph
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