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    • Control Theory
    • Systems Engineering
    • Robotics

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    • Multiagent systems require coordinated behavior for complex tasks.
    • Achieving consensus control under external disturbances and directed topologies is challenging.
    • Existing methods often lack predefined-time convergence or robustness.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To develop a practical predefined-time (PPT) consensus control strategy for multiagent systems.
    • To address output-feedback control under directed topology and bounded external disturbances.
    • To ensure consensus tracking errors converge within a user-defined time, independent of initial states.

    Main Methods:

    • Design of a distributed practical predefined-time (PPT) observer for leader state estimation.
    • Proposal of a practical preset-time extended-state observer for disturbance and state estimation.
    • Development of a novel continuous and nonsingular PPT consensus control law based on observer outputs.

    Main Results:

    • The proposed control protocol achieves practical predefined-time (PPT) stability.
    • Consensus tracking errors are confined to a small neighborhood around zero within a predetermined time.
    • The convergence time is independent of initial states and design parameters.

    Conclusions:

    • The presented PPT control approach effectively achieves consensus control for multiagent systems.
    • The method demonstrates robustness against bounded external disturbances and directed topologies.
    • Numerical examples validate the performance and superiority of the proposed control strategy.