Event-Triggered Bounded Consensus Tracking for Second-Order Nonlinear Multi-Agent Systems with Uncertainties

Abstract

This paper is concerned with event-triggered bounded consensus tracking for a class of second-order nonlinear multi-agent systems with uncertainties (MASs). Remarkably, the considered MASs allow multiple uncertainties, including unknown control coefficients, parameterized unknown nonlinearities, uncertain external disturbances, and the leader’s control input being unknown. In this context, a new estimate-based adaptive control protocol with a triggering mechanism is proposed. We rule out Zeno behavior by testifying that the lower bound on the interval between two consecutive events is positive. It is shown that under the designed protocol, all signals caused by the closed-loop systems are bounded globally uniformly and tracking errors ultimately converge to a bounded set. The effectiveness of the devised control protocol is demonstrated through a simulation example.

Keywords

• nonlinear multi-agent systems with uncertainties
• bounded consensus tracking
• adaptive control
• triggering mechanism