Bipartite event-triggered impulsive output consensus for switching multi-agent systems with dynamic leader

This paper studies the output consensus of heterogeneous switching linear multi-agent systems (LMASs). The considered switching topology in a signed graph is jointly connected. An event-triggered impulsive control algorithm is proposed, in which the event-triggered time sequence is allowed to be different from the impulsive sequence. Specifically, the lea-der's control inputs in the LMASs model are allowed to be designed for the followers. In a fully distributed manner, a general compensator consisting of an impulsive and dynamic event-triggered mechanism is proposed to estimate the state of the leader. Based on the designed compensator and observer, a distributed control law is proposed to realize the bipartite output consensus by using an iterative method. Under the event triggering strat-egy, the combined measurement method is used, so that each agent only needs to update input information at the moment of its event triggering. Finally, our theoretical results are demonstrated through a numerical example.(c) 2022 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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This paper studies the output consensus of heterogeneous switching linear multi-agent systems (LMASs) and proposes an event-triggered impulsive control algorithm and a distributed control law. The theoretical results are demonstrated through a numerical example.