Guaranteed cost synchronization for second-order wireless sensor networks with given cost budgets

Abstract The current paper addresses leader-following guaranteed cost synchronization with the cost budget given previously for the second-order wireless sensor networks. The published researches on guaranteed cost synchronization design criteria usually are based on the linear matrix inequality (LMI) techniques and cannot take the cost budget given previously into consideration. Firstly, the current paper proposes a guaranteed cost synchronization protocol, which can realize the tradeoff design between the battery power consumption and the synchronization regulation performance. Secondly, for the case without the given cost budget, sufficient conditions for leader-following guaranteed cost synchronization are presented and an upper bound of the cost function is shown. Thirdly, for the case that the cost budget is given previously, the criterion for leader-following guaranteed cost synchronization is proposed. Especially, the value ranges of control gains in these criteria are determined, which means that the existence of control gains in synchronization criteria can be guaranteed, but the LMI techniques can only determine the gain matrix and cannot give the value ranges of control gains. Moreover, these criteria are only associated with the minimum nonzero eigenvalue and the maximum eigenvalue, which can ensure the scalability of the wireless sensor networks. Finally, numerical simulations are given to illustrate theoretical results.