A Novel Dual-Phase Based Approach for Distributed Event-Triggered Control of Multiagent Systems With Guaranteed Performance

This article presents a novel dual-phase based approach for distributed event-triggered control of uncertain Euler–Lagrange (EL) multiagent systems (MASs) with guaranteed performance under a directed topology. First, a fully distributed robust filter is designed to estimate the reference signal for each agent with guaranteed observation performance under continuous state feedback, which transforms the distributed event-triggered control problem into a centralized one for multiple single systems. Second, an event-triggered controller is constructed via intermittent state feedback, making the output of each agent follow the corresponding estimated signal with guaranteed tracking performance. The proposed co-design scheme is of relatively low complexity in structure and cheap in computation since a priori knowledge of system nonlinearities or estimation of their bounds is not required in building the control scheme, and yet neither approximating structures nor adaptive online updating algorithms are needed. It is shown that the output tracking error of each agent is ensured to shrink into a prescribed precision set at an arbitrarily assignable convergence rate, although the plant states and the actuation signal are triggered simultaneously. All the internal signals are uniformly bounded and the occurrence of Zeno behavior is precluded. The efficiency of the proposed method is verified via numerical simulation.