Output Feedback Sampled-Data Control of MAS

In previous chapters, particular attentions and concerns of us have concentrated on addressing the various communication issues, that resulted from the imperfect network environments, i.e., the time delays and packet losses occurred during communication process and the network switchings associated with communication structure changes, and concentrated on revealing the tradeoff relationship between the stability and performance of closed-loop system and the tolerability to network imperfection. Based on these efforts, we can guarantee the hybrid sampled-data control method to operate more safely and more smoothly. For this moment, it should be noted that the networked control of MAS poses the challenges mainly from two aspects: one is the above considered network imperfections, and the other is the scarce communication resource. In practice, the networked MASs usually have limited communication resources, such as bandwidth and node energy. It implies that traditional continuous communication, which requires real-time information of neighbors, may cause excessive resources consumption and is not easy to be implemented under network environment.