A distributed control approach to a robust output regulation problem for multi-agent linear systems

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control

Volumn 55, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 2891-2895

  Wang, Xiaoli ^a   Hong, Yiguang ^b   Huang, Jie ^c   Jiang, Zhong Ping ^d  

^a HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^d POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributed control; internal model; multi agent systems; robust output regulation

Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOTIC TRACKING; DISTRIBUTED CONTROL; DISTRIBUTED CONTROL SCHEMES; EXOSYSTEMS; INTERNAL MODELS; MULTI-AGENT; OUTPUT REGULATION; OUTPUT REGULATION PROBLEM; REFERENCE INPUTS;

DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER CONTROL SYSTEMS; DISTURBANCE REJECTION; LINEAR SYSTEMS;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 78649982424     PISSN: 00189286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAC.2010.2076250     Document Type: Article

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