Dynamic optimization for multi-agent systems with external disturbances

This paper studies the dynamic optimization problem for multi-agent systems in the presence of external disturbances. Different from the existing distributed optimization results, we formulate an optimization problem of continuous-time multi-agent systems with time-varying disturbance generated by an exosystem. Based on internal model and Lyapunov-based method, a distributed design is proposed to achieve the optimization. Finally, an example is given to illustrate the proposed optimization design. © 2014 South China University of Technology, Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.