Leader-following consensus of fractional-order multi-agent systems based on event-triggered control

In this paper, an efficient event-triggered control is designed to address the leader-following consensus problem for the fractional-order multi-agent systems. First, in order to reduce the conservation of consensus criteria, a novel Wirtinger-based fractional-order integral inequality is proposed. Second, an adaptive control is designed by using a new event-triggered scheme without Zeno behavior, which can effectively reduce the communication cost in network. Later in order to analyze the consensus of the fraction-order leader-following systems, we employ a new approach based on fractional Lyapunov direct method. Finally, combining Wirtinger-based fractional-order integral inequality, the event-triggered adaptive control as well as the proposed consensus method, the consensus criteria of the leader-following fractional-order multi-agent systems are obtained. Two numerical examples are used to test the effectiveness and feasibility of the results presented in this study.