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    Area of Science:

    • Control Systems Engineering
    • Robotics
    • Artificial Intelligence

    Background:

    • Multiagent systems (MASs) often face challenges with unknown external disturbances and leader control inputs.
    • Achieving consensus and coordinated behavior in MASs under such uncertainties is a critical research problem.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To develop a human-in-the-loop consensus control strategy for MASs with unknown external disturbances.
    • To design a robust control protocol that accommodates an unobservable leader control input.

    Main Methods:

    • A full-order observer was designed for each follower to achieve asymptotic state estimation, decoupling unknown disturbance inputs.
    • An interval observer was constructed for the consensus error dynamics, treating disturbances and neighbor control inputs as unknown inputs (UIs).
    • A novel asymptotic algebraic unknown input reconstruction (UIR) scheme was proposed to process UIs and decouple follower control input.

    Main Results:

    • The proposed UIR scheme effectively reconstructs unknown inputs within the interval observer framework.
    • A human-in-the-loop consensus protocol was developed using an observer-based distributed control strategy, ensuring asymptotic convergence.
    • The effectiveness of the control scheme was validated through two simulation examples.

    Conclusions:

    • The developed human-in-the-loop control strategy provides a robust solution for achieving consensus in MASs under unknown disturbances and leader control inputs.
    • The observer-based approach and UIR scheme offer a promising direction for enhancing the coordination and reliability of autonomous multiagent systems.