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This article studies the event-based adaptive practical fixed-time decentralized control problem for a class of large-scale uncertain nonlinear systems subject to non-affine nonlinear faults. By fusing the techniques of fixed-time control and command filter, the problems such as singular-value and computational explosion in fixed-time control based on backstepping design framework are solved. Based on the fuzzy approximation theory and Butterworth low-pass filter (BLPF) technique, the non-affine nonlinear fault terms are processed and fault-tolerant controllers are designed to realize fault compensation. In order to relieve the communication the pressure between system components, a novel switching event-triggering mechanism (SETM) based on user-set threshold parameters is proposed. This switching threshold design the scheme combines the advantages of the traditional fixed threshold and relative threshold design strategies, providing greater flexibility in balancing system performance and network constraints. By combining the practical fixed-time stability criterion with the Lyapunov stability theory, it is demonstrated that both the tracking performance and the closed-loop stability can be ensured in a fixed-time. Finally, two simulation examples are given to verify the effectiveness of the proposed fixed-time switching event-triggered control (SETC) scheme. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper investigates the problems of decentralized adaptive neural network (NN) secure control for a class of nonstrict-feedback nonlinear interconnected large-scale systems (NILSs) under denial-of-service (DoS) attacks. The considered systems contain not only unknown interconnected terms but also general nonlinear functions that are not required to be globally Lipschitz, in contrast to most of the existing results in the area. When the system subject to the DoS attack, the sampled data can neither be sent by the sensors nor received by the actuators due to the appearance of DoS in the sensor-to-controller (S-C) and the controller-to-actuator (C-A) communication channels. The data packets sent from the sensors are blocked and the traditional backstepping technology cannot be adopted. In order to solve this difficulty, a novel dynamic gain observer is constructed, which can obtain the desired states from the NILSs under DoS attacks. Considering the energy limitation of attackers, two reasonable Assumptions of DoS attack intensity are given. The stability is proven based on the Lyapunov stability theory (LST) and the improved average dwell time (ADT) method. The proposed controller guarantees that all signals in closed-loop systems are bounded, while the tracking error signals converge to a small residual set. Finally, two simulation examples are provided to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed control method. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

• The DOS attacks is first considered in the heterogeneous nonlinear multi-agent systems in this paper. • By designing a control strategy and using impulsive theorem, some conditions are derived to achieve quasi-synchronization. • The relationship among control strength, impulsive interval and attacks strength is analyzed with two impulsive effects. • The average impulsive interval is considered to unify the synchronization criteria of systems with two impulsive effects. This paper is concerned with the quasi-synchronization of heterogeneous nonlinear multi-agent systems under DOS attacks with impulsive effects. The impulsive effects play either a positive role (impulsive control) or a negative role (impulsive disturbance) in the synchronization problem. The communication topology subjected to DOS attacks is considered, which destroys the communication channel among agents. A connectivity restoration mechanism is assumed. Only considering the positive impulsive effect, the controller does not need to operate constantly, which will reduce the controller resource consumption. Only taking the negative impulsive effect into account, a feedback controller is designed to counteract with the impulsive disturbance and DOS attacks. By using the concept of 'average impulsive interval', the criterion of quasi-synchronization with two impulsive effects is unified. Based on the impulsive theorem, the relationship among attack strength, control gain and average impulsive interval is analyzed. The results are illustrated by a simulation example. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Highlights • The ADP algorithm of actor-critic networks is used to deal with the decentralized reliable guaranteed cost control problem of large-scale nonlinear systems with mismatched interconnection and time-varying actuator fault. • A novel relationship of the control policy between isolated system and original system with interconnection and actuator faults, is constructed. • The considered reliable guaranteed cost control problem is transformed into design an optimal control strategy of the isolated system. Abstract In this paper, the decentralized reliable guaranteed cost control problem of large-scale nonlinear systems with mismatched interconnection and time-varying actuator fault is investigated. The unknown actuator fault is assumed to be with known upper bounds. Under the case that the interconnection term is unknown and mismatched, the guaranteed cost control problem for a class of large-scale nonlinear systems can be transformed into design an optimal control strategy of the isolated system, which is necessary to solve the HJB (Hamilton–Jacobi–Bellman) equations by using adaptive dynamic programming (ADP) of actor-critic networks. The convergence property of the neural network weights and the stability of the closed-loop system have been strictly proved even if time-varying actuator faults and unknown interconnection coexist. Finally, simulation examples are given to show the effectiveness of the proposed approach. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract: This paper addresses the state feedback control of nonlinear continuous-time, Markovian-jump systems. The nonlinearity is represented by Takagi–Sugeno fuzzy models and the transition probability matrix is assumed to be partly known: some elements in the matrix are known, some are unknown but with known lower and upper bounds, and some are completely unknown. By making full use of the continuous property of the transition probability matrix, new sufficient conditions for the stochastic stability of the system are obtained in terms of linear matrix inequalities. We show that the conditions given are less conservative than or at least the same as those for existing results. Moreover, using the conditions obtained, we establish a method for design of a state feedback controller. Numerical examples illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed method. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

In this paper, we investigate the time-varying formation tracking control (TVFTC) problem for high-order uncertain nonlinear multi-agent systems (MASs) with a dynamic leader. Both unknown disturbances and uncertain nonlinear functions are considered. A novel fixed-time TVFTC strategy is proposed with two steps, which can avoid the communication loop problem. Firstly, a distributed fixed-time observer (DFTO) for the directed graph is introduced, such that the leader's information can be accurately obtained by each agent within a bounded time. Secondly, by using fixed-time technique, a Lyapunov-function-based design process has been schemed to avoid the singularity problem. The developed TVFTC protocols can ensure all the followers achieve the desired time-varying formation and track the leader simultaneously. Furthermore, according to practical requirements, the configuration of formation can be chosen as arbitrary shape and the corresponding convergence time is allowed to be pre-estimated or preset. Stability analysis and some simulation examples for the control strategy are given, which further verify the validity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]