In this article, we investigate the cooperative control of networked parametric strict feedback systems in the presence of uncertainties and nonlinearities. A distributed controller is constructed recursively such that the synchronization error of agents’ outputs can be bounded, that is, practical output synchronization is achieved. By command-filtered backstepping approach, the derivation of the virtual control is avoided, which significantly reduces the computational burden of each agent. Moreover, the neighborhood information which is needed for agent i to construct its controller is minimized. Therefore, information transfer burden is eased as well. It is proved that practical output synchronization is achieved when the digraph has a spanning tree. Finally, the effectiveness of the proposed controller is illustrated by a numerical example.
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