Event-triggered consensus control for general second-order multi-agent systems

Abstract

The consensus problem of multi-agent systems with general second-order dynamics is studied. A distributed event-triggering strategy is proposed to reduce the communication frequency of agents and the update frequency of event-triggering controller. Under the fixed topology, a consensus protocol and event-triggering function are designed for each agent. The sufficient conditions of consensus are obtained by the stability theory, and the theoretical proof of excluding Zeno behaviour is presented. Finally, a simulation example is given to illustrate the effectiveness of the obtained results.

Keywords

• consensus
• multi-agent systems
• general second-order
• event-triggered