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    Area of Science:

    • Control Systems Engineering
    • Robotics
    • Autonomous Systems

    Background:

    • Consensus tracking is crucial for coordinating multiple autonomous vehicles.
    • Heterogeneous multivehicle systems (MVSs) present challenges due to diverse dynamics.
    • Existing methods for continuous-time systems often require impractical identical initial conditions.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To develop a unified iterative learning control (ILC) algorithm for heterogeneous MVSs.
    • To establish consensus criteria for MVSs with switching topology and external disturbances.
    • To relax the strict initial condition requirement for continuous-time systems.

    Main Methods:

    • A unified iterative learning control (ILC) algorithm applicable to both discrete- and continuous-time nonlinear dynamics.
    • Development of distributed ILC protocols to establish consensus criteria.
    • Introduction of a distributed initial state learning protocol to handle varying initial conditions.

    Main Results:

    • Discrete-time systems achieve perfect tracking to a common reference trajectory in finite time, even without spanning trees in digraphs.
    • Continuous-time systems achieve finite-time tracking regardless of initial errors by relaxing the identical initial condition assumption.
    • Numerical simulations validate the effectiveness of the proposed theoretical results.

    Conclusions:

    • The proposed unified ILC algorithm effectively addresses consensus tracking in heterogeneous MVSs.
    • The relaxation of initial condition constraints significantly improves practical applicability.
    • The developed protocols enhance the robustness and coordination capabilities of autonomous vehicle systems.