Distributed Event-Triggered Communication and Control of Linear Multiagent Systems Under Tactile Communication

This note is concerned with the consensus of linear multiagent systems under tactile communication. Motivated by the emerging tactile communication technology where extremely low latency has to be supported, a distributed event-triggered communication and control scheme is proposed for the data reduction of each agent. First, an event-triggered data reduction scheme is designed for the communication between neighbors. Under such a communication scheme, a distributed event-triggered output feedback controller is further implemented for each agent, which is updated asynchronously with the communication action. It is proven that the consensus of the underlying multiagent systems is achieved asymptotically. Furthermore, it is shown that the proposed communication and control strategy fulfils the reduction of both the frequency of communication and controller updates as well as excluding Zeno behavior. A numerical example is given to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed control strategy.