IJCAS

This paper considers a high-order consensus problem of multi-agent system with feedforward nonlinear and time-varying input delay in a directed network. In order to achieve the consensus, we propose a low gain distributed protocol which can get rid of impacts of feedforward nonlinearity and an arbitrarily bounded input delay on the consensus problem. Moreover, for any upper bound time-varying delay and strongly connected diagraph, the proposed controller can solve the consensus problem of multi-agent systems with feedforward nonlinearity if the designed parameter q is great than the threshold value. Finally, several numerical simulations are presented to demonstrate the validity of the theoretical results."

Keywords: Directed network, feedforward, high-order consensus, input delay, nonlinear multi-agent systems.