The adaptive distributed observer approach has been an effective tool for synthesizing a distributed control law for solving various control problems of leader–follower multiagent systems. However, the existing adaptive distributed observer needs to make use of the full state of the leader system. This assumption not only precludes many practical applications in which only the output of the leader system is available, but also leads to a high dimension observer. In this communique, we propose an adaptive distributed output observer which only makes use of the output of the leader system, and is thus more practical than the state based adaptive distributed observer. Moreover, the dimension and the information exchange among agents of the proposed adaptive distributed output observer can be significantly smaller than those of the state based adaptive distributed output observer.

自适应分布式观察者方法已成为一种有效的工具，可以综合用于解决领导者跟随者多主体系统的各种控制问题的分布式控制律。但是，现有的自适应分布式观察者需要利用领导者系统的完整状态。这种假设不仅排除了仅可使用引导系统输出的许多实际应用，而且还导致了高维观察者。在此公报中，我们提出了一种自适应分布式输出观察器，该观察器仅利用领导者系统的输出，因此比基于状态的自适应分布式观察器更加实用。此外，