Consensus disturbance rejection with event-triggered communications

This paper considers the consensus disturbance rejection problem of networks of linear agents with event-triggered communications in the presence of matched disturbances. Based on the disturbance observer, distributed event-based consensus protocols are proposed and constructed for both the cases of neutrally stable and general linear agents. Under the proposed event-based consensus protocol, it is shown that the consensus errors are asymptotically stable and the Zeno behavior can be excluded. Compared to the previous related works, our main contribution is that the proposed event-based protocol can achieve consensus and meanwhile reject disturbance, without the need of continuous communications among neighboring agents. For the case of neutrally stable agents, the event-based protocol is fully distributed, using only the local information of each agent and its neighbors. Simulation results are presented to illustrate the effectiveness of the theoretical results. (C) 2018 The Franklin Institute. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.