Distributed admissible consensus control for singular swarm systems with switching topologies

Abstract

Summary The interaction topologies of swarm systems may be time varying due to the motions of agents or the failure of communication equipment. The current paper focuses on admissible consensus analysis and design problems for singular swarm systems with switching topologies. Admissible consensus analysis problems are converted into admissible ones of a reduced-order switching subsystem by the state projection on the consensus subspace and the complement consensus subspace. Furthermore, an approach to determine the consensus function is proposed by the first equivalent form. Moreover, by the Riccati equation, admissible consensus design criteria are presented, which can guarantee the scalability of singular swarm systems because they are independent of the number of agents. Finally, numerical examples are presented to check the correctness of theoretical results. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.