Multi-agent containment control with input saturation on switching topologies

Abstract

This study aims to investigate containment control of linear multi-agent systems with input saturation on switching topologies. For such a multi-agent system, both state feedback and output feedback containment control protocols are proposed via a novel low-gain feedback approach. Consequently, the authors show that, under the assumption that the switching networks are jointly connected, semi-global state feedback and output feedback containment control of the multi-agent system can be attained. The effectiveness of the proposed algorithms is illustrated via numerical examples.