Distributed Event-Triggered Adaptive Coordinated Trajectory Tracking Control of Multi-USVs Based on the Aggregate Tracking Error

Aiming to solving the nonlinear coordinated trajectory tracking control problem of multi-USVs under the influence of slowly changing and uncertain environmental disturbances, reducing energy consumption and ensuring tracking performance and stability, a distributed event-triggered adaptive coordinated trajectory tracking controller (DET-ACTTC) for multiple unmanned surface vessels (multi-USVs) is proposed based on the undirected communication topology. By introducing a virtual leader, a leader-follower formation is used to generate the coordinated tracking errors. Based on the expected formation and states, the aggregate tracking errors are defined, and event-triggered measurement errors are constructed to design the event-triggered conditions. An adaptive term is used to compensate for external environment disturbances, and the DET-ACTTC is deduced for each USV in the group. The tracking errors of the event-triggered coordinated trajectory tracking control (ETCTTC) system gradually converge to zero, and Zeno behavior is avoided. The theoretical results are verified by simulations.