Consensus Disturbance Rejection for Linear Multiagent Systems With Directed Switching Communication Topologies

This paper addresses the consensus disturbance rejection problem for multiple-input multiple-output linear multiagent systems (MASs) with directed fixed as well as switching communication topologies in the presence of deterministic disturbances. Based on the relative output information among neighboring agents, a controller, which incorporates the consensus error estimator, the state estimator with static coupling strength and the disturbance observer, is given such that consensus tracking could be achieved in the considered MASs under directed switching communication topologies provided that the control parameters are suitably chosen and the average dwell time is larger than a positive threshold, while the disturbances are fully rejected by the designed disturbance observer. Furthermore, by designing a state estimator with adaptive coupling law, a controller is given such that consensus disturbance rejection of MASs with directed fixed topology could be achieved in a fully distributed manner. The obtained theoretical results are finally validated by performing simulations on the unmanned aerial vehicles.