The H∞ proportional-integral-differential(PID) feedback for arbitrary-order delayed multi-agent system is investigated to improve the system performance. The closed-loop multi-input multi-output(MIMO) control framework with the distributed PID controller is firstly described for the multi-agent system in a unified way. Then, by using the matrix theory, the prescribed H∞performance criterion of the multi-agent system is shown to be equivalent to several independent H∞ performance constraints of the single-input single-output(SISO) subsystem with respect to the eigenvalues of the Laplacian matrix. Subsequently, for each subsystem,the set of the PID controllers satisfying the required H∞ performance constraint is analytically characterized based on the extended Hermite-Biehler theorem. Finally, the three-dimensional set of the decentralized H∞ PID control parameters is derived by finding the intersection of the H∞ PID regions for all the decomposed subsystems. The simulation results reveal the effectiveness of the proposed method.
This paper proposed distributed strategies for the joint control of power and data rates in a wireless sensor network. By adapting a linear state-space model to describe the network dynamics, the power controller with static output feedback is designed in the case that the transmission signal are not always available and the estimation of the unmeasured states constitutes a crucial task in the network. The existence of the power controller is formulated as the feasibility of the convex optimization problem, which can be solved via a linear matrix inequality (LMI) approach. The proposed algorithm also caters to the uncertainties in the network dynamics. Numerical examples are given to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed methods.
