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Control design in the presence of actuator saturation: from individual systems to multi-agent systems

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This work was supported in part by US Army Research Office (Grant No. W911NF-17-1-0535).

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Lin, Z. Control design in the presence of actuator saturation: from individual systems to multi-agent systems. Sci. China Inf. Sci. 62, 26201 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11432-018-9698-x

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