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Event‐triggered Control for Cluster Consensus in Multi‐agent Networks
Author(s) -
Hu Aihua,
Hu Manfeng,
Guo Liuxiao
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
asian journal of control
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.769
H-Index - 53
eISSN - 1934-6093
pISSN - 1561-8625
DOI - 10.1002/asjc.1270
Subject(s) - cluster (spacecraft) , computer science , event (particle physics) , control (management) , distributed computing , artificial intelligence , computer network , physics , quantum mechanics
This paper considers the issue of cluster consensus for multiple agents in fixed and undirected networks. Agents in a network are supposed to split into several clusters, and a fraction of the agents in each cluster are pinned by virtual leaders. According to the Lyapunov stability theory and graph theory, some appropriate event‐triggered protocols are developed for consensus of the agents belonging to the same cluster, which can greatly reduce both the number of communication updates and that of control actuation updates. Finally, a numerical example is shown to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed theoretical results.