Distributed Multi-Agent Consensus Control With Event-Triggered Communications

In recent years,with the rapid development of industy,it has high demand on agent.The agent can be an aircraft,a satellite,a sensor with microprocessors,and so forth.A single agent can not meet today's complex contrl's requirement.Multi-agent cooperative control transforms a single complex agent into the cooperative control of multiple simple agents,and use group collaboration to complete complex tasks.Multi-agent cooperative control,in line with the current development trend.This paper studies the distributed consensus problem for dynamical multi-agent network of general linear agent.At the same time,it uses the event-triggered communication policy.The presented event-triggered consensus control strategy consists of a distributed control policy relying on local relative-state information and an event-based communication policy relying on both the local information and a time-dependent threshold function.Compared with centralized control,distributed control is less affected by communication faults.Distributed controller can still run efficiently under the condition of limited communication or unreliable condition.Compared to the periodic control methed,event-triggered control offers some advantages such as saving energy and reducing the use of devices.Compared to the existing works,main differents of this paper can be listed as follows.Firstly,the connectivity of communication networks is avoid in the design of both the distributed control law and the event-triggered updating rule.Secondly,continuous communication among the agents can be avoided in the design.Thirdly,the design of distributed event-triggered consensus controller is extended to the distributed event-triggered containment controller design of multiple leaders.