Hybrid Event-Triggered and Impulsive Control Strategy for Multiagent Systems With Switching Topologies

This article investigates the hybrid event-triggered and impulsive consensus problems for leaderless and leader-following multiagent systems (MASs) with switching topologies. Based on the state information of neighboring agents at event-triggered moments and impulsive instants, a hybrid event-triggered and impulsive control strategy (HETICS) is designed to reduce the communication frequency between neighboring agents and to ensure consensus of leaderless and leader-following MASs. By utilizing the Lyapunov direct method, some consensus criteria are obtained for leaderless and leader-following MASs with switching topologies. It is shown that the HETICS excludes the Zeno behavior. Several numerical examples and simulations are given to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed consensus strategy and a comparison with previous consensus control methods is given.

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This article investigates hybrid event-triggered and impulsive consensus problems for leaderless and leader-following multiagent systems with switching topologies. A hybrid control strategy is designed to reduce communication frequency and ensure consensus. The effectiveness is demonstrated through numerical examples and simulations, and a comparison with previous methods is provided.