Event-Triggered Control for a Class of Nonlinear Multiagent Systems With Directed Graph

Abstract

By using the event-triggered technique, we study the distributed control of a class of nonlinear multiagent systems (MASs) with aperiodic sample information. Taking advantage of the combinational sample measurements, we first present an event-triggered consensus algorithm for the leaderless MAS. Thereafter, we design the event-triggered tracking algorithm for the leader–follower MAS with a leader having bounded input. Furthermore, we prove that both consensus and tracking controllers do not exist Zeno behavior. Finally, a numerical example is given to verify the designed event-triggered consensus algorithm.