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Area of Science:

  • Control Systems Engineering
  • Distributed Systems
  • Networked Systems

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  • Multi-agent systems require coordinated behavior for complex tasks.
  • Achieving consensus under external disturbances is a significant challenge.
  • Event-triggered control offers potential for reduced communication and computation.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop an event-triggered consensus control protocol for general linear multi-agent systems.
  • To address the impact of external disturbances on system consensus.
  • To ensure the proposed protocol avoids Zeno behavior.

Main Methods:

  • Designing a novel event-triggered control protocol utilizing local observed states.
  • Employing an observer for each agent based on output signals.
  • Proving consensus achievement and disturbance attenuation theoretically.
  • Conducting numerical simulations to validate the control strategy.

Main Results:

  • The designed event-triggered control protocol successfully achieves consensus in multi-agent systems.
  • The protocol demonstrates effective disturbance attenuation capabilities.
  • The absence of Zeno behavior is theoretically proven.
  • Numerical simulations confirm the effectiveness of the proposed control strategy.

Conclusions:

  • The developed event-triggered consensus control strategy is effective for general linear multi-agent systems.
  • The protocol offers a robust solution for systems facing external disturbances.
  • The event-triggered approach provides an efficient method for achieving consensus without Zeno behavior.