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Distributed event-triggered tracking control of leader-follower multi-agent systems with communication delays
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As embedded microprocessors are applied widerly to multi-agent systems, control scheduling and time-delay problems arose in the case of limited energy and computational ability. It has been shown that the event-triggered actuation strategy is an effective methodology for designing distributed control of multi-agent systems with limited computational resources. In this paper, a tracking control problem of leader-follower multi-agent systems with/without communication delays is formulated and a distributed dynamic tracking control is designed by employing event-triggered technique. Then, the input-to-state stability of the closed-loop multi-agent system with directed interconnections is analyzed. Finally, a numerical example is given to validate the proposed control.
As embedded microprocessors are applied widerly to multi-agent systems, control scheduling and time-delay problems arose in the case of limited energy and computational ability. It has been shown that the event-triggered actuation strategy is an effective methodology for designing distributed control of multi-agent systems with limited computational resources. In this paper, a tracking control problem of leader-follower multi-agent systems with/without communication delays is formulated and a distributed dynamic tracking control is designed by employing event-triggered technique. Then, the input-to-state stability of the closed-loop multi-agent system with directed interconnections is analyzed. Finally, a numerical example is given to validate the proposed control.
Classification : 93A14, 93C10
Keywords: leader-follower multi-agent system; event-triggered control; time-varying delay; directed topology 
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Hu, Jiangping; Chen, Guanrong; Li, Han-Xiong. Distributed event-triggered tracking control of leader-follower multi-agent systems with communication delays. Kybernetika, Tome 47 (2011) no. 4, pp. 630-643. http://geodesic.mathdoc.fr/item/KYB_2011_47_4_a8/

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