Decentralized Output Sliding-Mode Fault-Tolerant Control for Heterogeneous Multiagent Systems

IEEE Trans Cybern. 2020 Dec;50(12):4934-4945. doi: 10.1109/TCYB.2019.2912636. Epub 2020 Dec 3.

Abstract

This paper proposes a novel decentralized output sliding-mode fault-tolerant control (FTC) design for heterogeneous multiagent systems (MASs) with matched disturbances, unmatched nonlinear interactions, and actuator faults. The respective iteration and iteration-free algorithms in the sliding-mode FTC scheme are designed with adaptive upper bounding laws to automatically compensate the matched and unmatched components. Then, a continuous fault-tolerant protocol in the observer-based integral sliding-mode design is developed to guarantee the asymptotic stability of MASs and the ultimate boundedness of the estimation errors. Simulation results validate the efficiency of the proposed FTC algorithm.