Distributed Event-Triggered Leader-Follower Consensus of Nonlinear Multi-Agent Systems

Abstract: We consider the distributed leader-follower consensus problem with event-triggered communications. The system under consideration is a non-linear input-affine multi agent system. The agents are assumed to have identical dynamics structure with uncertain parameters and satisfying an incremental stabilisability condition. A distributed control law is proposed which achieves consensus based on two novel Communication Triggering Conditions (CTCs): the first one to achieve an asymptotic consensus but without any guarantees on Zeno behaviour and the second one to exclude Zeno behaviour but with practical consensus.