Distributed Dynamic Event-Triggered Control for Cooperative Output Regulation of Linear Multiagent Systems

Area of Science:

• Control Systems Engineering
• Networked Systems
• Distributed Systems

Background:

• Cooperative output regulation is crucial for coordinated multiagent systems.
• Existing methods often require global information or continuous communication, limiting scalability and efficiency.
• Event-triggered control offers a promising approach to reduce communication load.

Purpose of the Study:

• To develop a fully distributed, event-triggered dynamic output feedback control law for heterogeneous linear multiagent systems.
• To design a decentralized event-triggering mechanism that eliminates the need for global information.
• To ensure Zeno behavior is strictly avoided in the proposed control strategy.

Main Methods:

• A feedforward design approach is employed to formulate the dynamic output feedback control law.
• A distributed dynamic event-triggering mechanism is developed for decentralized information sharing.
• Analysis confirms the independence of the control law and triggering mechanism from global system information.

Main Results:

• The proposed event-triggered control strategy successfully solves the cooperative output regulation problem for heterogeneous linear multiagent systems.
• Intermittent communication is sufficient to achieve the regulation objective in a fully distributed manner.
• The designed strategy effectively prevents Zeno behavior for all agents.

Conclusions:

• The novel dynamic event-triggered control strategy enables efficient and distributed cooperative output regulation.
• The method's independence from global information enhances its applicability to complex systems.
• The findings demonstrate a significant advancement in event-triggered control for multiagent systems.