Fixed-Time Event-Triggered Consensus for Nonlinear Multiagent Systems Without Continuous Communications

In this paper, we study the fixed-time event-triggered consensus problem of the uncertain nonlinear multiagent systems. Two fixed-time event-triggered consensus controllers are proposed. In contrast to finite-time results, the convergence time of fixed-time results is independent of initial conditions. Furthermore, continuous communications can be avoided both in the update of controllers and in the triggering condition monitoring. It is proved that there is no Zeno behavior under the fixed-time event-triggered consensus control strategies. The availability of the control algorithms is verified by numerical simulations.

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