Prespecified-Performance-Driven Triggering Consensus of Nonlinear Multiagent Systems With Unknown Actuator Faults

This article investigates the prespecified performance consensus problem for a class of nonlinear multiagent systems (MASs) with unknown actuator faults. By employing a sensor-triggered mechanism and neural estimation algorithm, a novel leader-follower consensus protocol is devised for the nonlinear MASs. The developed sensor event-triggered mechanism comprises two parts, the first one is sensor event-triggered sampling, and the second one is event-triggered information transmission. Due to the presence of the sensor-triggered mechanism, the system states cannot be available in real time. In order to solve this challenge, a signal decomposition and compensation strategy is constructed to balance the intermittent sensor-sampled signals and the real system inputs. Furthermore, the considered actuator faults in each follower are not limited to be finite, the time, frequency and mode of the faults are also unknown. To address the unknown actuator faults in the nonlinear MASs, a resilient fault management mechanism is developed for each follower. Based on the managed actuator faults dynamics, some bounded estimation signals are constructed and the issue of "explosion of complexity" in the backstepping design procedure is eliminated through the application of nonlinear filters with compensation terms. Finally, simulation results are given to illustrate the effectiveness of developed control protocol.