Event-Triggered Formation Control of a Generalized Multi-Agent System

Abstract

In this paper, we propose an event-triggered formation control algorithm for a multi-agent system consists of linear discrete agents in order to reduce energy consumption due to unnecessary calculation and communication of agents. By using the event-triggered protocol, which updates the control input aperiodically only when certain triggering condition is satisfied, calculation and communication frequency are reduced. Also the multi-agent system is guaranteed an almost sure stability by determining the control input update timing by the triggering condition which is based on Lyapunov's stability theorem. Finally we verify the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm by numerical simulation.