Adaptive Neural Consensus Tracking Control for Nonlinear Multiagent Systems with Dead Zone and Sensor Faults

In this paper, an adaptive neural tracking control design is investigated for uncertain multiagent systems (MASs) with actuator dead zone and sensor faults. The adaptive control technique based on neural networks is employed to handle the uncertainty in the systems, which, however, results in a bounded tracking error from most existing works. To achieve the asymptotic tracking performance, we proposed a direct adaptive strategy via the tuning function method. Technically, a Lyapunov function with a series of smooth functions is designed, which benefits proposing of an asymptotic controller. Then, under the framework of direct adaptive control, an inverse compensation scheme, as well as a fault-tolerant mechanism, are considered for disposing of the actuator dead zone and sensor failures. As a result, user-preset tracking performance is achieved and the system error in the MASs converges to a predefined range. An example in the simulation section illustrates the effectiveness of the proposed method.