Distributed Consensus for Multiple Lagrangian Systems With Parametric Uncertainties and External Disturbances Under Directed Graphs

Abstract

In this paper, we study the leaderless consensus problem for multiple Lagrangian systems in the presence of parametric uncertainties and external disturbances under directed graphs. To achieve asymptotic behavior, a robust continuous term with adaptive varying gains is added to alleviate the effects of the external disturbances with unknown bounds. In the case of a fixed directed graph, by introducing an integrate term in the auxiliary variable design, the final consensus equilibrium can be explicitly derived. We show that the agents achieve weighted average consensus, where the final equilibrium is dependent on three factors, namely, the interactive topology, the initial positions of the agents, and the control gains of the proposed control algorithm. In the case of switching directed graphs, a model-reference-adaptive-consensus-based algorithm is proposed such that the agents achieve leaderless consensus if the infinite sequence of switching graphs is uniformly jointly connected. Motivated by the fact that the relative velocity information is difficult to obtain accurately, we further propose a leaderless consensus algorithm with gain adaptation for multiple Lagrangian systems without using neighbors' velocity information. We also propose a model-reference-adaptive-consensus-based algorithm without using neighbors' velocity information for switching directed graphs. The proposed algorithms are distributed in the sense of using local information from its neighbors and using no common control gains. Numerical simulations are performed to show the effectiveness of the proposed algorithms.