Fixed‐time sliding mode consensus tracking for second‐order nonlinear multi‐agent system with persistent dwell‐time switching topologies.

This article investigates the problem of fixed‐time sliding mode consensus tracking for nonlinear second‐order multi‐agent system, in the presence of disturbances and actuator attacks. The interaction topology graph of multi‐agent system is directed and switched, and the switching topologies satisfy a more general persistent dwell‐time switching mechanism. To account for the disturbances, actuator attack, and switching topologies, a nonsingular sliding mode control law with distributed switching scheme is constructed to guarantee the fixed‐time reachability to a sliding surface. By using multiple Lyapunov functions, some new sufficient criteria are derived for fixed‐time consensus tracking of the multi‐agent system with persistent dwell‐time switching topologies. To illustrate the proposed approach, we present a numerical example and a physical example of the single pendulum model. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]