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Distributed safety-critical control of nonlinear multi-agent systems
College of Electronic and Information Engineering, National Key Laboratory of Autonomous Intelligent Unmanned Systems, Frontiers Science Center for Intelligent Autonomous Systems, Ministry of Education, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China.
College of Electronic and Information Engineering, National Key Laboratory of Autonomous Intelligent Unmanned Systems, Frontiers Science Center for Intelligent Autonomous Systems, Ministry of Education, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China.
College of Electronic and Information Engineering, National Key Laboratory of Autonomous Intelligent Unmanned Systems, Frontiers Science Center for Intelligent Autonomous Systems, Ministry of Education, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China.
KTH, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), Intelligent systems, Decision and Control Systems (Automatic Control).ORCID iD: 0000-0001-9940-5929
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.

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Elsevier BV , 2026. Vol. 183, article id 112634
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Control barrier function, Multi-agent system, Nonlinear second-order system, Safety-critical control
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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
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