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...dom switching topologies. A hybrid model predictive control scheme is proposed in [17] to solve the containment and distributed sensing problems in leader/follower multi-agent systems. The authors in =-=[18, 19, 20]-=- study the containment control problem for a collection ∗Zhongkui Li and Zhisheng Duan are with the State Key Laboratory for Turbulence and Complex Systems, Department of Mechanics and Engineering Sci...

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...d in [10] and adaptive controllers were used to guarantee both leaderless synchronization and leader-following coordinated tracking. Finite-time coordinated tracking algorithms were proposed in [11], =-=[12]-=-, where the directed communication topology was emphasized in [11] and the Lagrange dynamics were used to represent the attitudes of rigid bodies in [12]. The authors of [13] introduced a variable str...

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...blem has been investigated and numerous research results have been obtained [18–27]. Containment control strategies were proposed for multiagent systems with single-integrator [17– 19], double-integrator [20–22], or general linear dynamics [23]. However, the reported methods can only deal with the containment control problem of linear multiagent systems. By now, there have been some results on containment control for nonlinear multiagent systems in [24–27]. It should be noted that the proposed containment controllers required each agent satisfying Lagrangian dynamics with known nonlinearities [24, 25], linearly parameterized nonlinearities [26], or unknownnonlinearities [27].Therefore, containment control problem for uncertain nonlinear multiagent systems needs to be further investigated. Motivated by the above observations, in this paper, containment control problem for multiagent systems with more general nonlinear dynamics is studied.Thenonlinear dynamics of each follower can be totally unknown. Using FLSs to identify the unknown nonlinear dynamics, distributed state Hindawi Publishing Corporation Mathematical Problems in Engineering Volume 2014, Article ID 840517, 9 pages http://dx.doi...

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...in [16], containment control is a combination of formation and rendezvous problems and as such it is of interest for UAV formation control [17], robot swarms [18] and attitude control of rigid bodies =-=[19]-=-. IA preliminary version of the paper has been presented in IEEE CDC-CCC 2009. ∗Corresponding author Email addresses: galbusera@mi.imati.cnr.it (Luca Galbusera), giancarlo.ferrari@unipv.it (Giancarlo ...

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...-stationary leader, however, without communication constraints. In the case of multiple leaders, the containment control problem has been studied with stationary leaders [13]-[14] and dynamic leaders =-=[15]-=--[16] under different interconnection topology graphs, yet by assuming ideal communication between the systems. Two important remarks on the above results are worth mentioning. First, the above delay-...

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...be divided into four categories: 1) the single-integrator dynamics [9]–[12]; 2) the double-integrator dynamics [13]–[19]; 3) the general linear dynamics [20]–[22]; 4) the Euler-Lagrange dynamics [23]–=-=[25]-=-. In [9], consensus-like interaction rules were designed for the followers while a hybrid “StopGo” policy was applied to the leaders. This control strategy ensures that all followers stay in the conve...