Simulation Teaching of Adaptive Fault-Tolerant Containment Control for Nonlinear Multi-Agent Systems

Shangkun Liu, Wangjin Zhang, Jingli Huang () and Jie Huang
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Shangkun Liu: College of Electrical Engineering and Automation, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou 350108, China
Wangjin Zhang: College of Electrical Engineering and Automation, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou 350108, China
Jingli Huang: College of Electrical Engineering and Automation, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou 350108, China
Jie Huang: College of Electrical Engineering and Automation, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou 350108, China

Mathematics, 2025, vol. 13, issue 21, 1-23

Abstract: An adaptive fault-tolerant containment control approach is developed for nonlinear multi-agent systems to address issues related to both communication link and actuator faults. This approach achieves fault-tolerant containment control through the introduction of a convex hull signal estimator and a fault compensation mechanism. First, a leader–follower network model with communication link faults is constructed, and distributed containment errors are established. The proposed framework involves three key components: the design of an adaptive backstepping control law, the introduction of a nonlinear filter for boundary error elimination, and the application of a radial basis function neural network (RBFNN) for the approximation of unknown nonlinear terms. Meanwhile, an adaptive convex hull estimator is designed to estimate the signals formed by the leaders, and an actuator fault estimator is constructed to compensate for fault signals online. Additionally, Lyapunov stability analysis demonstrates that all containment errors remain uniformly bounded. To support simulation teaching and validation, numerical simulations and autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) simulations are used to not only to confirm the efficacy of the presented control technique but also to provide illustrative cases for educational purposes.

Keywords: multi-agent systems; fault-tolerant containment control; communication link faults; actuator faults; simulation teaching (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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