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    Area of Science:

    • Control Theory
    • Networked Systems
    • Robotics

    Background:

    • Multi-agent systems (MAS) are crucial for coordinated behaviors.
    • Containment control aims for followers to reach a region defined by leaders.
    • Switched dynamics (continuous-time/discrete-time) present significant control challenges.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To investigate distributed containment control for general second-order MAS with switched dynamics.
    • To develop a control protocol robust to arbitrary switching between continuous-time and discrete-time subsystems.
    • To analyze system behavior under both fixed and switching directed network topologies.

    Main Methods:

    • A distributed containment control protocol using local relative measurements.
    • Derivation of necessary and sufficient conditions for successful containment.
    • Analysis under fixed directed topology containing a directed spanning forest.
    • Extension to switching directed topologies.

    Main Results:

    • A novel distributed containment control protocol is proposed for switched MAS.
    • Conditions for achieving containment under arbitrary CT-DT switching are established.
    • Simplified conditions are derived for the double integrator system.
    • The protocol's effectiveness is demonstrated through simulations under fixed and switching topologies.

    Conclusions:

    • The proposed distributed control protocol effectively solves the containment problem for general second-order switched MAS.
    • The derived conditions guarantee robust containment despite complex dynamics and topology changes.
    • The findings offer a significant advancement in the control of networked autonomous systems.