Consensus in high-power multiagent systems with mixed unknown control directions via hybrid Nussbaum-based control

This work investigates the consensus tracking problem for high-power nonlinear multiagent systems with partially unknown control directions. The main challenge of considering such dynamics lies in the fact that their linearized dynamics contain uncontrollable modes, making the standard backstepping technique fail; also, the presence of mixed...

Nonlinear Systems with Uncertain Periodically Disturbed Control Gain Functions: Adaptive Fuzzy Control with Invariance Properties

This paper proposes a novel adaptive fuzzy dynamic surface control (DSC) method for an extended class of periodically disturbed strict-feedback nonlinear systems. The peculiarity of this extended class is that the control gain functions are not bounded a priori but simply taken to be continuous and with a known sign. In contrast with existing...

Adaptive Asymptotic Tracking for a Class of Uncertain Switched Positive Compartmental Models with Application to Anesthesia

This article addresses and solves the adaptive asymptotic tracking for a class of uncertain switched positive linear dynamics (also known in the literature as compartmental models) subject to dwell-time constraints. Compared to the state-of-the-art, the innovative feature of this method is to attain for the first time asymptotic set-point...

The Set-Invariance Paradigm in Fuzzy Adaptive DSC Design of Large-Scale Nonlinear Input-Constrained Systems

This paper proposes a novel set-invariance adaptive dynamic surface control (DSC) design for a larger class of uncertain large-scale nonlinear input-saturated systems. The peculiarity of this class is that no a priori bound on the continuous control gain functions is assumed (i.e., their boundedness cannot be assumed before obtaining system...

A Separation-Based Methodology to Consensus Tracking of Switched High-Order Nonlinear Multiagent Systems

This work investigates a reduced-complexity adaptive methodology to consensus tracking for a team of uncertain high-order nonlinear systems with switched (possibly asynchronous) dynamics. It is well known that high-order nonlinear systems are intrinsically challenging as feedback linearization and backstepping methods successfully developed...

Spatiotemporal Patterns in Land Use/Land Cover Observed by Fusion of Multi-Source Fine-Resolution Data in West Africa

Land Use/Land Cover (LULC) change is a major global concern and a topic of scientific debate. In West Africa, the key trend among the changes of the past few years is the loss of natural vegetation related to changes in different LULC categories, e.g., water bodies, wetland, and bare soil. However, not all detected changes in these LULC...