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Distributed cooperative anti-disturbance control of multi-agent systems: an overview

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This paper reviews some main results and recent progress in distributed cooperative anti-disturbance control (DCADC) of multi-agent systems. Compared with anti-disturbance control in single systems, DCADC is more challenging because of the existence of coupling in multi-agent systems and the aim is to design distributed cooperative control based on the local information of each agent. This paper is concerned with some kinds of DCADC methods, such as distributed cooperative variable structure control, distributed cooperative sliding mode control, distributed cooperative disturbance-observer-based control, and distributed cooperative output regulation control approaches. Some future research topics regarding DCADC methods are also pointed out.

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This work was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 61673107, 61673104), National Ten Thousand Talent Program for Young Top-notch Talents, Cheung Kong Scholars Programme of China for Young Scholars, and Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of China (Grant No. 2242016K41058).

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Yu, W., Wang, H., Hong, H. et al. Distributed cooperative anti-disturbance control of multi-agent systems: an overview. Sci. China Inf. Sci. 60, 110202 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11432-017-9141-x

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