Fault tolerant cooperative control for a class of complex networks

This paper proposes a fault tolerant cooperative control strategy for a class of complex network systems with the time varying interconnection topology. The general neighboring rule-based linear cooperative protocol is developed and a sufficient synchronization condition is derived. Moreover, it is shown that the target point is still reached with the proposed fault tolerant cooperative control method when fault occurs. An example of a complex consisting of four one-link manipulators is presented to demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed method.