Group consensus of nonlinear semi-Markov multi-agent systems by a quantity limited controller.

This paper solves the group consensus problem of incremental quadratic constraints nonlinear multi-agent systems with semi-Markov switching parameters via a quantity limited controller. The quantity limited controller is designed according to the stationary probability distribution of the system modes, and the number of controllers can be selected from 1 to the number of system modes. Therefore, the controller can be applied in cases where there is a mismatch between the number of system modes and the number of controllers. Next, the more general incremental quadratic constraint is used to handle the nonlinear terms. Finally, in the simulation section, the method of adding topology links is used to implement external equitable partitions of arbitrary topologies, and the validity of the proposed method is verified by a spring damping system. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]