Transient Bipartite Synchronization for Cooperative-Antagonistic Multiagent Systems With Switching Topologies

This article aims at addressing the transient bipartite synchronization problem for cooperative-antagonistic multiagent systems with switching topologies. A distributed iterative learning control protocol is presented for agents by resorting to the local information from their neighbor agents. Through learning from other agents, the control input of each agent is updated iteratively such that the transient bipartite synchronization can be achieved over the targeted finite horizon under the simultaneously structurally balanced signed digraph. To be specific, all agents finally have the same output moduli at each time instant over the desired finite-time interval, which overcomes the influences caused by the antagonisms among agents and topology nonrepetitiveness along the iteration axis. As a counterpart, it is revealed that the stability can be achieved over the targeted finite horizon in the presence of a constantly structurally unbalanced signed digraph. Simulation examples are carried out to demonstrate the effectiveness of the distributed learning results developed among multiple agents.

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This article introduces a distributed learning control protocol that enables multiagent systems to achieve transient bipartite synchronization within a finite time, overcoming the influences caused by antagonisms and topology nonrepetitiveness. Simulation examples demonstrate the effectiveness of the distributed learning results developed among multiple agents.