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    • Control Systems Engineering
    • Robotics and Automation
    • Networked Systems

    Background:

    • Nonlinear multiagent systems (MASs) face challenges with parameter uncertainties and external disturbances, impacting tracking control.
    • Achieving precise and timely control in MASs is crucial for many engineering applications.
    • Existing control strategies may not adequately address fault tolerance and prescribed-time convergence simultaneously.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To develop a prescribed-time fault-tolerant tracking control strategy for nonlinear MASs.
    • To enhance tracking precision by reconstructing discrete reference signals.
    • To ensure system outputs converge to the desired trajectory within a specified time, despite uncertainties and faults.

    Main Methods:

    • Trajectory reconstruction using cubic spline interpolation for discrete reference signals.
    • Design of prescribed-time regulators to create a fault-tolerant tracking controller.
    • Stability analysis using Lyapunov methods and simulation examples to validate the approach.

    Main Results:

    • The proposed controller ensures that the outputs of the controlled system converge to the reconstructed trajectory with arbitrary accuracy within the prescribed tracking time.
    • The strategy effectively handles parameter uncertainties and external disturbances in nonlinear MASs.
    • Demonstrated effectiveness through stability analyses and a simulation example.

    Conclusions:

    • The developed prescribed-time fault-tolerant tracking control strategy is theoretically sound and practically applicable.
    • The method offers improved tracking precision and robustness for nonlinear MASs.
    • This research contributes to the advancement of control engineering for complex networked systems.