Output Consensus of Heterogeneous Linear Multi-Agent Systems with Adaptive Event-Triggered Control

2018/09/06 by Yang-Yang Qian, Yang‐Yang Qian, Lu Liu +1 · 323 citations
Computer Science · Engineering · Mathematics · #Adaptive control #Artificial intelligence #Computer science #Consensus #Control (management) #Control theory (sociology) #Distributed Control Multi-Agent Systems #Distributed computing #Event (particle physics) #Mathematics #Mechanism (biology) #Multi-agent system #Neural Networks Stability and Synchronization #Stability and Control of Uncertain Systems #Zeno's paradoxes

paper · doi:10.1109/tac.2018.2868997

published in IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control 64(6), 2606-2613 (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)

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Abstract

This paper investigates the output consensus problem for heterogeneous linear multi-agent systems via event-triggered control. By introducing a dynamic compensator for each agent, a fully distributed event-triggered control strategy with an adaptive event-triggering mechanism is proposed. It is shown that under the proposed control strategy, all agents asymptotically achieve output consensus with intermittent communication in a fully distributed manner. Moreover, with the proposed event-triggering mechanism, Zeno behavior is strictly excluded for each agent. Compared with existing mechanisms, the proposed event-triggering mechanism is independent of any global information and avoids the continuous monitoring issue. Finally, a numerical example is provided to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed event-triggered control strategy.

Citations

• Event-Triggered Real-Time Scheduling of Stabilizing Control Tasks
• Self-Triggered Consensus for Multi-Agent Systems With Zeno-Free Triggers
• Consensus Problems in Networks of Agents With Switching Topology and Time-Delays
• Event-based broadcasting for multi-agent average consensus

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