Second-order controllability of two-time-scale multi-agent systems

Abstract

This paper addresses the controllability for an interconnected two-time-scale second-order multi-agent system. Firstly, to eliminate the singular perturbation parameter, we separate the multi-agent system into slow subsystem and fast subsystem by using singular perturbation methods. Then, based on matrix theory, some necessary and/or sufficient criteria are derived for second-order controllability of two-time-scale multi-agent systems with multiple leaders. Moreover, we propose some easy-to-use second-order controllability criteria determined only by eigenvalues of system matrices. Lastly, the effectiveness of the proposed theoretical results is illustrated by a simulation example.