عنوان	Fixed-Time Containment Tracking Control of Fractional-Order Multi-Vehicle Systems with Multiple Leaders: SMC approach
نوع پژوهش	مقاله چاپ‌شده
کلیدواژه‌ها	Fractional-order systems, multi-vehicle network, fixed-time convergence, containment control, Sliding mode control
چکیده	This paper addresses sliding mode control (SMC) design for disturbed fractional-order multi-vehicle networks in order to achieve containment tracking within a certain settling time. The multi-leader case is investigated where the aim of the containment protocol design is that the states of the fractional-order followers eventually are placed inside a convex hull made by the states of the leaders. The convergence rate is designed such that achieving the containment tracking occurs in a fixed-time manner. Unlike the previous works on finite-time containment control protocols of multi-agent systems, here, we offer a tractable design as the upper limit of the settling time of the convergence is achieved independent of the preliminary conditions of the vehicles' states. A novel SMC approach is proposed which enables the multi-vehicle network to reach the containment tracking at presence of the external disturbances. The numerical simulations reveal the correctness and effectiveness of the proposed theoretical approaches.
پژوهشگران	خسرو خاندانی (نفر سوم)، وحید جوهری مجد (نفر اول)، حسین زمانی (نفر دوم)