Consensus of second-order multi-agent systems with delayed nonlinear dynamics and aperiodically intermittent communications

ABSTRACT In this paper, we investigate the consensus problem for second-order multi-agent systems with inherent delayed nonlinear dynamics and aperiodically intermittent communication. First, different from previous works, aperiodically intermittent communication is proposed. Moreover, two types of delay are considered. The first case is that the delay is small enough so that it is less than the minimum of communication width. The other one is that the delay is time-varying and large, and in this case, we do not restrict the delay less than the communication width. Different approaches are provided to study these two cases, and some conditions are obtained to achieve second-order consensus under a fixed strongly connected and balanced topology. Finally, a simulation example is presented to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.

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