Event-Triggering Sampling Based Leader-Following Consensus in Second-Order Multi-Agent Systems

In this note, the problem of second-order leader-following consensus by a novel distributed event-triggered sampling scheme in which agents exchange information via a limited communication medium is studied. Event-based distributed sampling rules are designed, where each agent decides when to measure its own state value and requests its neighbor agents broadcast their state values across the network when a locally-computed measurement error exceeds a state-dependent threshold. For the case of fixed topology, a necessary and sufficient condition is established. For the case of switching topology, a sufficient condition is obtained under the assumption that the time-varying directed graph is uniformly jointly…

• NN
  National Natural Science Foundation of China

  Award: 61403314
• QN
  Qatar National Research Fund
• FR
  Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities

  Awards: SWU114006, XDJK2014C117