Multi‐agent containment control with input saturation on switching topologies

This study aims to investigate containment control of linear multi‐agent systems with input saturation on switching topologies. For such a multi‐agent system, both state feedback and output feedback containment control protocols are proposed via a novel low‐gain feedback approach. Consequently, the authors show that, under the assumption that the switching networks are jointly connected, semi‐global state feedback and output feedback containment control of the multi‐agent system can be attained. The effectiveness of the proposed algorithms is illustrated via numerical examples.