Cooperative Regulation for Global Disconnection Protection Among Time-Varying Nonlinear Agents

This paper proposes a distributed cooperative aggregate control strategy to ensure the achievement of cooperative asymptotic consensus of states in time-varying nonlinear multi-agent systems in the presence of communication channel disconnections between agents within the network topology. The dynamic gain aggregate compensator is designed and a distributed cooperative aggregate control strategy targeting communication topology disconnections is developed, where the aggregate compensator serves as a key variable to aggregate the action trajectories of leader and followers along the optimal asymptotic trajectory. The cooperative aggregate consensus stability analysis method is proposed to demonstrate the effectiveness of the formulated distributed cooperative aggregate control scheme, which is based on two dynamic aggregate measurement error variables that accurately measure the difference in aggregate state information between the aggregate compensator and the leader-following. The feasibility of the proposed reliable cooperative consensus regulation technique is further validated through simulation experiments.