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This paper investigates the adaptive consensus with limited information for a class of uncertain nonlinear multi-agent systems (MASs). The limited information, meaning the incomplete information transmitted between agents, stems from nonzero-kernel weight matrices of communication networks, which deserves concerns owing to its practical interest such as in privacy preserving and information compression. Apart from the limited/incomplete information, the paper considers nonlinear MASs with large uncertainties (without known upper bounds). This is essentially different from the existing results of linear systems and poses challenges for the design and analysis of adaptive consensus. As for fully distributed protocol design, dynamic high gains are introduced to compensate for the system uncertainties and for the unavailable global graph information. In closed-loop consensus analysis, a new Lyapunov function is constructed by utilising weight and incidence matrices instead of Laplacian matrix. It turns out that the designed protocol can guarantee the boundedness of closed-loop MASs signals and the convergent consensus. Two numerical examples are given to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed control scheme. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Communication network could suffer uncertainties originating from link faults and network attacks. This situation, in multi-agent systems, can be featured by unknown weights of network topology. To impair the influence of the uncertain topology, typical compensation should be taken into account in distributed protocols to the workability of multi-agent systems. This paper, in the context of uncertain topology, addresses finite-time leader-following consensus for second-order uncertain nonlinear multi-agent systems. In addition to uncertainties in topology, the systems also allow unknown control coefficients, which together with the unknown weights renders the realisation of finite-time leader-following consensus nontrivial. Specifically, a fully distributed protocol based on distributed finite-time observer is designed via integrating the adaptive compensation scheme. Notably, in the designed protocol, dynamic high gains are introduced for the compensations of the network uncertainties and agents uncertainties. It turns out that the designed fully distributed protocol guarantees the global finite-time leader-following consensus. Simulation examples are provided to illustrate the validity of the proposed approach. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to establish a novel adaptive event-triggered scheme of global output-feedback stabilization for nonlinear systems with unmeasurable state dependent growth under the architecture with network communication among sensor, observer-based controller and actuator. To suppress the inherent system nonlinearities (reflected by the polynomial-of-output growth rate), a dynamic gain is integrated into event-triggered scheme. While reducing execution as much as possible to maintain efficiency, it is critical to ensure timely information transmission and control updating for the effectiveness of adaptive mechanism. To this end, double-side asynchronous adaptive event-triggering mechanisms, instead of a one-side or (double-side) synchronous one, are delicately designed by fully exploiting the dynamic gain, upon which adaptive event-triggered output-feedback control is established to ensure the system states to converge to zero. Particularly, the time of evaluation suspension and the threshold parameter for the events on system output and observer states are not fixed but rather online adjusted with the alteration of dynamic gain, to make sure to counteract the influence of sampling/actuation error. Unlike the related results, the adaptive event-triggering mechanisms render the inter-execution times determined purely according to system behavior and without explicit upper-bound limit, which retain the desired potential in execution reducing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]