Discrete-Time Distributed Observers Over Jointly Connected Switching Networks and an Application

In this article, we first establish an exponential stability result for a class of linear switched systems and then apply this result to show the existence of the distributed observer for a discrete-time leader system over jointly connected switching networks. Then, we further develop the adaptive distributed observer for the discrete-time leader system over jointly connected switching networks, which has the advantage over the distributed observer in that, it does not require that every follower subsystem know the system matrix of the leader system. As an application of the discrete-time distributed observer, we solve the cooperative output regulation problem of a discrete-time linear multiagent system over jointly connected switching networks. A leader-following formation problem of mobile robots is used to illustrate our design.