Distributed Anti-Disturbance Control Strategy for Multi-Aircraft Systems With Time-Varying Topology

Abstract

This paper is concerned with the distributed consensus problems for second-order multi-aircraft systems in the presence of sensor data loss and time-varying communication topology. A novel model-based game strategy is proposed to handle the distributed problem regardless of the time-varying topology. An anti-disturbance sliding-mode controller is designed to realize the ability of disturbance rejection and state estimation. The extended state observer combines two methods together and finally produces an independent decision-making architecture for each individual such that better convergence is achievable. Theoretical analyses are given to guarantee both individual stability and distributed stability. The simulation and experimental results are presented to show the effectiveness of the proposed control scheme.

Keywords

• Game theory
• sliding mode control (SMC)
• multi-aircraft systems
• time-varying topology