Adaptive fault-tolerant control for a class of nonlinear multi-agent systems with actuator faults

This paper considers the distributed adaptive fault-tolerant control problem for linear multi-agent systems with matched unknown nonlinear functions and actuator bias faults. By using fuzzy logic systems to approximate the unknown nonlinear function and constructing a local observer to estimate the states, an effective distributed adaptive fault-tolerant controller is developed. Furthermore, different from the traditional method to estimate the weight matrix, only the weight vector needs to be estimated by exchanging the order of weight vectors and fuzzy basis functions in the fuzzy logic systems. In contrast to the existing results, the assumption that the dimensions of input vector and output vector are equal is removed. In addition, it is proved that the proposed control protocol guarantees all signals in the closed-loop systems are bounded and all agents converge to the leader with bounded residual errors. Finally, simulation examples are given to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed method. (C) 2017 The Franklin Institute. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.