Distributed safety-critical control of nonlinear multi-agent systems
2026 (English)In: Automatica, ISSN 0005-1098, E-ISSN 1873-2836, Vol. 183, article id 112634Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
This paper considers the safety-critical control problem for nonlinear second-order multi-agent systems with constraints of each agent and inter-agent ones. We overcome the challenge of the time-varying and position-dependent communication network with limited sensing range by introducing a truncated function for the smooth addition and deletion of links in the edge set, and design a distributed and locally Lipschitz-continuous safety-critical control law, composed of a nominal controller for the objectives such as consensus, formation, and position swapping, etc., and a safety controller, which only takes effect when some neighboring agent enters the custom-designed boundary set. Meanwhile, to rigorously verify the safety of the whole multi-agent system, a continuously differentiable control barrier function is proposed under a relaxed feasibility condition in the sense that it is imposed on each subsystem and only needed in the boundary area.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Elsevier BV , 2026. Vol. 183, article id 112634
Keywords [en]
Control barrier function, Multi-agent system, Nonlinear second-order system, Safety-critical control
National Category
Control Engineering
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-371640DOI: 10.1016/j.automatica.2025.112634ISI: 001586857900001Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-105017418257OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-371640DiVA, id: diva2:2006872
Note
QC 20251016
2025-10-162025-10-162025-10-16Bibliographically approved