Distributed event-triggered control of multiagent systems with general linear dynamics

This paper discusses the event-triggered consensus problem of multiagent systems. to investigate distributed event-triggering strategies applied to general linear dynamics,we employ a dynamic controller to convert the general linear dynamic to the single-integrator model by a change of variable. the consensus value of these new states is a constant so that the distributed event-triggering scheme is obtained under periodic event detections,in which agents with general linear dynamics require knowledge only of the relative states with their neighbors. further,an event-triggered observer is proposed to address the case that only relative output information is available. hence,the consensus of both the state-based and observer-based cases is achieved by the distributed event-triggered dynamic controller. finally,numerical simulations are provided to demonstrate the effectiveness of theoretical results. © 2014 xieyan zhang and jing zhang.