Event-triggered stochastic consensus of multiagent systems over random antagonistic network in a compound noisy environment

Abstract

This article investigates an event-triggered strategy to deal with the bipartite consensus issue for stochastic multiagent systems (SMASs) in a communication noisy environment. The communication network can be modeled by a random signed graph and the communication noise is compound noises (additive noise and multiplicative noise). The stochastic event-triggered bipartite consensus control protocol for SMASs with compound noises is presented by the stochastic approximation (SA) method. Due to the control gain is time-varying and agent-dependent, the implementation of event-triggered control protocol may cause out-sync of the control gain. Meanwhile, the coexistence of stochastic antagonistic information and compound noises causes it hard to turn the noises term into an error equation, which leads to the fact that the traditional error transition method is invalid for our underlying system. To deal with these challenges, the state’s boundedness for each agent is first constructed by the Lyapunov method, and then the event-triggered bipartite consensus can be demonstrated via a new semi-decomposition technique. Finally, the effectiveness of the proposed SA controller is verified by two examples.