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Hailong Li¹, Cheng Wang¹, Zhongjie Yin¹

¹High-Tech Institute of Xi'an, Xi'an, 710025, PR China.

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Summary

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This study introduces optimal control protocols for multiagent systems (MASs) to achieve desired formations while minimizing energy and performance costs. The methods ensure optimal leaderless and leader-following control for time-varying formations.

Keywords:

Cooperative control Energy and performance indices Multiagent system Optimal formation

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Area of Science:

Robotics and Control Systems
Distributed Systems
Optimization Theory

Background:

Multiagent systems (MASs) require sophisticated control for coordinated movement.
Time-varying formations (TVF) present unique challenges in maintaining system cohesion and achieving objectives.
Existing methods often struggle with optimizing both cooperative performance and control energy simultaneously.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop optimal leaderless and leader-following time-varying formation (TVF) control protocols for second-order MASs.
To minimize a comprehensive optimization function balancing cooperative performance and control energy.
To establish criteria for the achievability of optimal TVF control.

Main Methods:

Reformulation of the leaderless optimal formation control as an infinite-time state regulator problem using state space decomposition.
Development of an analytic criterion for optimal TVF achievability.
Extension of leaderless control results to leader-following scenarios with switching topologies.
Focus on finding the optimal controller rather than just the optimal gain matrix.

Main Results:

Proposed two optimal TVF control protocols for leaderless and leader-following MASs.
Derived an analytic criterion for optimal TVF control achievability.
Accurately determined the optimal value of the comprehensive index for leader-following systems.
Demonstrated the optimality and effectiveness of the proposed methods through simulations and comparisons.

Conclusions:

The proposed optimal control protocols effectively achieve desired time-varying formations in MASs.
The methods successfully minimize the combined cooperative performance and control energy indices.
The developed criteria and approaches provide a robust framework for optimal formation control in complex MASs.