Observer-Based Event-Triggered Fuzzy Adaptive Bipartite Containment Control of Multiagent Systems With Input Quantization

This article studies the bipartite containment control problem for nonlinear multiagent systems (MASs) with input quantization over a signed digraph. The design objective is to provide an appropriate distributed protocol such that the followers converge to a convex hull containing each leader's trajectory as well as its opposite trajectory different in sign. Based on a nonlinear decomposition approach of input quantization, an event-triggered control scheme is developed via backstepping technique. A fuzzy observer is constructed to estimate unmeasurable states. Moreover, the bipartite containment control scheme for nonlinear MASs is designed. It is demonstrated that all signals in the closed-loop system are semiglobally uniformly ultimately bounded and Zeno behavior is excluded. Finally, a simulation example is given to verify the validity of the designed method.

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This article studies the bipartite containment control problem for nonlinear multiagent systems over a signed digraph, and develops a distributed protocol and event-triggered control scheme to achieve this. By utilizing a fuzzy observer to estimate unmeasurable states, the stability of the system is demonstrated.