Publication Date

2017

Document Type

Dissertation

Committee Members

Yongcan Cao (Committee Member), Mark Mears (Committee Member), Pradeep Misra (Committee Member), Raul Ordonez (Committee Member), Kuldip Rattan (Committee Member), Xiaodong Zhang (Advisor)

Degree Name

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Abstract

The research on distributed multi-agent systems has received increasing attention due to its broad applications in numerous areas, such as unmanned ground and aerial vehicles, smart grid, sensor networks, etc. Since such distributed multi-agent systems need to operate reliably at all time, despite the possible occurrence of faulty behaviors in some agents, the development of fault-tolerant control schemes is a crucial step in achieving reliable and safe operations. The objective of this research is to develop a distributed adaptive fault-tolerant control (FTC) scheme for nonlinear uncertain multi-agent systems under intercommunication graphs with asymmetric weights. Under suitable assumptions, the closed-loop system's stability and leader-follower cooperative tracking properties are rigorously established. First, a distributed adaptive fault-tolerant control method for nonlinear uncertain first-order multi-agent systems is developed. Second, this distributed FTC method is extended to nonlinear uncertain second-order multi-agent systems. Next, adaptive-approximation-based FTC algorithms are developed for two cases of high-order multi-agent systems, i.e., with full-state measurement and with only limited output measurement, respectively. Finally, the distributed adaptive fault-tolerant formation tracking algorithms for first-order multi-agent systems are implemented and demonstrated using Wright State's real-time indoor autonomous robots test environment. The experimental formation tracking results illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed methods.

Page Count

149

Department or Program

Ph.D. in Engineering

Year Degree Awarded

2017

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