Prescribed Time Fuzzy Adaptive Consensus Control for Multiagent Systems With Dead-Zone Input and Sensor Faults

A prescribed time fuzzy adaptive consensus control method is constructed for multiagent systems with sensor faults and dead-zone input. Sensor faults inevitably occur in actual engineering systems and may distort the state information. Besides, the control effect would be further dramatically affected when systems exist dead-zone input. Thus, a fuzzy adaptive compensation strategy is established by the bounded adaptive optimized method to eliminate the impact of the above constraints. Furthermore, a given performance consensus control method is investigated with the aid of nonlinear transformation. Meanwhile, combined with the prescribed time technology, it further achieves that the systems settling time can be preselected while the performance of the systems is given. Finally, some simulation experiments are adopted to demonstrate the feasibility and effectiveness of the investigated control method.
Note to Practitioners
—This work studies the consensus problem for multiagent systems, which is important in engineering collaborative applications. Due to measurement noise and electronic damage, sensor faults inevitably happen in industrial applications. Besides, dead-zone input often occurs in actual systems as physical properties of electronic components. Based on the bounded adaptive optimized method, a fuzzy adaptive compensation strategy is constructed to deal with those issues. To further improve the control performance in the collaborative process, prescribed time technology and given performance strategy are applied to construct the control method. The investigated approach can be useful in multiagent systems to achieve more steady consensus operation, which is more in line with the application requirements.