Event-triggered time-varying formation control for general linear multi-agent systems

Abstract This paper investigates event-triggered formation control problems for general linear multi-agent systems. The time-varying formation this paper studied can be described by a bounded piecewise differentiable vector-valued function. Firstly, a time-varying formation control protocol based on event-triggered scheme is constructed by the states of the neighboring agents. Each agent broadcasts its state information to neighbor nodes if the triggering condition is satisfied, and the communication load is decreased significantly. Then, an algorithm consisting of three steps is proposed to design the event-triggered formation control protocol. Moreover, it is proven that under the designed event-triggered formation protocol, the multi-agent systems can achieve the desired time-varying formation which belongs to the feasible formation set with the bounded formation error and the closed systems do not exhibit Zeno behavior. Finally, simulation results are given to demonstrate the effectiveness of the theoretical analysis.

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