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    Area of Science:

    • Control Engineering
    • Robotics
    • Distributed Systems

    Background:

    • Multiagent systems require coordinated behavior for tasks like formation control and distributed estimation.
    • Achieving consensus and average tracking in fixed-time remains challenging due to system dynamics and external disturbances.
    • Existing methods often lack robustness or fixed-time convergence guarantees.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To develop fixed-time distributed consensus and average tracking control for double-integrator multiagent systems.
    • To design robust sliding-mode controllers and observers capable of handling bounded input disturbances.
    • To ensure finite-time convergence for tracking and estimation tasks in multiagent systems.

    Main Methods:

    • A novel practical robust fixed-time sliding-mode control method utilizing a time-based generator.
    • Design of two fixed-time distributed consensus tracking observers for undirected and directed communication topologies.
    • Development of a fixed-time distributed average tracking observer for undirected communication.
    • Integration of control methods with observer information to achieve fixed-time distributed consensus and average tracking.

    Main Results:

    • Successful implementation of fixed-time distributed consensus tracking for double-integrator systems.
    • Achievement of fixed-time distributed average tracking for multiple reference signals.
    • Demonstration of robustness against bounded input disturbances.
    • Validation of observer and controller designs through numerical simulations.

    Conclusions:

    • The proposed fixed-time control and observer designs effectively solve distributed consensus and average tracking problems for multiagent systems.
    • The methods offer finite-time convergence and robustness, extending to higher-order integrator systems.
    • The study provides a significant advancement in the field of distributed control for coordinated multiagent behavior.