Title: Formation control of networked multi-agent systems based on a novel event-triggered transmission strategy

Authors: Junda He; Chuan Zhou; Jian Guo

Addresses: School of Automation, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, China ' School of Automation, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, China ' School of Automation, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, China

Abstract: In this paper, the formation control problem of networked multi-agent systems (MASs) with communication constraints is investigated. Firstly, a novel event-triggered transmission strategy is proposed to ensure both communication performance and control performance of the system. Secondly, a leader-following formation control strategy is designed to transform the formation control problem into the stability problem of a closed-loop system with time-varying delay. Thirdly, an integrated design scheme is developed to achieve the parameters of the new event-triggered transmission strategy and the control protocol simultaneously by using Lyapunov-Krasovskii function and linear matrix inequality (LMI) technique. Finally, a simulation example is provided to illustrate effectiveness of the proposed method.

Keywords: formation control; multi-agent systems; MASs; event-triggered strategy; automation; control; linear matrix inequality; LMI.

DOI: 10.1504/IJAAC.2017.087063

International Journal of Automation and Control, 2017 Vol.11 No.4, pp.447 - 461

Received: 05 Aug 2016
Accepted: 03 Mar 2017
Published online: 05 Oct 2017 *

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