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Fault-Tolerant Formation Tracking Control for Multi-Agent Systems with Bearing-Only Measurement

Yunjie Zhao1, Jing Wang1, Liya Dou2

  • 1School of Electrical and Control Engineering, North China University of Technology, Beijing 100144, China.

Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
|July 28, 2026
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Keywords:
actuator faultbearing measurementfault-tolerant controlformation realizationuncertainty

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