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Time-varying formation-containment problems for a second-order multiagent system (SOMAS) are studied via pulse-modulated intermittent control (PMIC) in this paper. A distributed control framework utilizing the neighbors’ positions and velocities is designed so that leaders in the multiagent system form a formation, and followers move to the convex hull formed by each leader. Different from the traditional formation-containment problems, this paper applies the PMIC framework, which is more common and more in line with the actual control scenarios. Based on the knowledge of matrix theory, algebraic graph theory, and stability theory, some sufficient conditions are given for the time-varying formation-containment problem of the second-order multiagent system. Some numerical simulations are proposed to verify the effectiveness of the results presented in this paper.

This paper studies the coverage control problem of an unicycle multi‐agent network with external disturbance in a dynamic environment which is described by a time‐varying density function. It is a challenging task to design a coverage control to simultaneously handle the external disturbance, underactuated model and time‐varying density function. Based on Voronoi partition, we proposed a coverage control approach which can maximize the metric function via robust tracking the Voronoi centroid with external disturbance. It is worth to mentioning that the angle of motion of the unicycle agent can align with the Voronoi centroid in finite time. Finally, the effectiveness of the proposed control is shown by simulation results.

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