Adaptive Consensus Tracking for Fractional Order Linear Time Invariant Swarm Systems

Abstract

This paper presents an adaptive controller to achieve consensus tracking for the fractionalorder linear time invariant swarm systems in which the matrices describing the agent dynamics and the interactive dynamics between agents are unknown. This controller consists of two parts: an adaptive stabilizer and an adaptive tracker. The adaptive stabilizer guarantees the asymptotic swarm stability of the considered swarm system. Also, the adaptive tracker enforces the system agents to track a desired trajectory while achieving consensus. Numerical simulation results are presented to show the effectiveness of the proposed controller.