Adaptive Neural Consensus Tracking for Nonlinear Multiagent Systems Using Finite-Time Command Filtered Backstepping

This paper is concerned with the finite-time consensus tracking control problems of uncertain nonlinear multiagent systems. A neural network-based distributed adaptive finite-time control scheme is developed, which can guarantee the consensus tracking is achieved in finite time with sufficient accuracy in the presence of unknown mismatched nonlinear dynamics. Such a finite-time feature is achieved by the modified command filtered backstepping technique based on the high-order sliding mode differentiator. Moreover, the proposed control scheme is completely distributed, since the control laws only use the local information. In addition, although mismatched uncertainty nonlinear dynamics are considered, only one parameter needs to be updated for each agent in the control scheme, which will simply the computations and make the proposed scheme more effective for applications. An example is included to verify the presented method.