Finite-Time Control of Networked Systems

Xinsong Yang received the B.S. degree in mathematics from Huaihua Normal University, Huaihua, Hunan, China, in 1992, and the M.S. degree in mathematics from Yunnan University, Kunming, Yunnan, China, in 2006. From 2008 to 2009, he was a Visiting Scholar with the Department of Mathematics, Southeast University, Nanjing, China. In 2014, he was a Visiting Professor with the Department of Mathematics, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China. In 2015, he was a Research Fellow with the Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. In 2016, he was a Research Fellow with the Department of Mathematics, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong. From 2006 to 2012, he was with Honghe University, Honghe, Yunnan. From 2012 to 2020, he was a Professor with Chongqing Normal University, Chongqing, China. Since 2021, he has been a Professor with Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan. He has authored or coauthored more than 100 papers in refereed international journals. His current research interests include collective behavior in complex dynamical networks, multiagent system, chaos synchronization, control theory, discontinuous dynamical systems, and neural networks. Prof. Yang serves as an Associate Editor for Neurocomputing, Neural Processing Letters, Mathematics, Frontiers in Applied Mathematics and Statistics, and Mathematical Modeling and Control. He was the Highly Cited Researcher by Thomson Reuters/Clarivate Analytics from 2019 to 2023.Yaping Sun received the B.S. degree in agricultural mechanization and automation from Southwest University, Chongqing, China, in 2016, and the Ph.D. degree in control science and engineering with the School of Artificial Intelligence and Automation, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China, in 2021. Since 2021, she has been a Full Postdoctoral Researcher with the College of Electronic and Information Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China. Her research interests lie in the areas of switched multi-agent coordination control theory and its applications to autonomous robotics, unmanned ground vehicles, and unmanned aerial vehicles.Rongqiang Tang received the M.S. degree in applied mathematics from Chongqing Normal University, Chongqing, China, in 2018. He is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree with Sichuan University, Chengdu, China. His research interests include collective behavior in complex dynamical systems, finite-time control, and switched systems.Meijie Zhang received the B.S. degree in electronic and information engineering from the North University of China, Taiyuan, China, in 2021. She is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree with the College of Electronic and Information Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China. Her current research interests include state estimation of complex switched networks, event-triggered control, and consensus of multi-agent systems.

• Introduction.- Preliminaries.- Finite-Time Control of Continuous Systems without Delay.- Finite-Time Control of Continuous Systems with Delay.- Fixed-Time Control of Continuous Systems.- Finite-Time and Fixed-Time Control of Differential Equations with Discontinuous State on The Right Hand Side.- Conclusion.