<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> This paper is concerned with cluster consensus of linear multi-agent systems via a distributed event-triggered control scheme. Assume that agents can be split into several clusters and a leader is associated with each cluster. Sufficient conditions are derived to guarantee the realization of cluster consensus by a feasible event-triggered controller if the network topology of each cluster has a directed spanning tree and the couplings within each cluster are sufficiently strong. Further, positive inner-event time intervals are ensured for the proposed event-triggered strategy to avoid Zeno behaviors. Finally, a numerical example is given to illustrate the effectiveness of the theoretical results.</p></abstract>

This paper is concerned with cluster consensus of linear multi-agent systems via a distributed event-triggered control scheme. Assume that agents can be split into several clusters and a leader is associated with each cluster. Sufficient conditions are derived to guarantee the realization of cluster consensus by a feasible event-triggered controller if the network topology of each cluster has a directed spanning tree and the couplings within each cluster are sufficiently strong. Further, positive inner-event time intervals are ensured for the proposed event-triggered strategy to avoid Zeno behaviors. Finally, a numerical example is given to illustrate the effectiveness of the theoretical results.

Event-Triggered Cluster Consensus of Leader-Following Linear Multi-Agent Systems

Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing Research

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This paper is concerned with cluster consensus of linear multi-agent systems via a distributed event-triggered control scheme. Assume that agents can be split...

Event-Triggered Cluster Consensus of Leader-Following Linear Multi-Agent Systems

Publié en ligne: 17 mai 2018

Pages: 293 - 302

Reçu: 26 janv. 2018

Accepté: 20 mars 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/jaiscr-2018-0019

Mots clés
cluster consensus, event-triggered scheme, leader-following consensus, multiagent systems

© 2018

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Event-Triggered Cluster Consensus of Leader-Following Linear Multi-Agent Systems

Publié en ligne: 17 mai 2018

Pages: 293 - 302

Reçu: 26 janv. 2018

Accepté: 20 mars 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/jaiscr-2018-0019

Mots cléscluster consensus, event-triggered scheme, leader-following consensus, multiagent systems

© 2018

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Mots clés
cluster consensus, event-triggered scheme, leader-following consensus, multiagent systems