Event-triggered communication and control of networked systems for multi-agent consensus

By Cameron Nowzari, Eloy García, Jorge Cortés. at - Automatisierungstechnik, 2017

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This article is a tutorial to event-triggered coordination for multi-agent average consensus.We provide a comprehensive account of the motivations behind the use of event-triggered strategies for consensus, the methods for algorithm synthesis, the technical challenges involved in establishing desirable properties of the resulting implementations, and their applications in distributed control. We pay special attention to the assumptions on the capabilities of the network agents and the resulting features of the algorithm execution, including the interconnection topology, the evaluation of triggers, and the role of imperfect information. The issues raised in our discussion transcend the specific consensus problem and are indeed characteristic of cooperative algorithms for networked cyber-physical systems that solve other coordination tasks. As our discussion progresses, we make these connections clear, highlighting general challenges and tools to address them widespread in the event-triggered control of network systems.

Subfields: Computer Networks and Communications, Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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Citations in the corpus

• Distributed Control Strategies for Microgrids: An Overview (2020, unknown): “The application of other types of consensus protocols has also been discussed in the literature [85]–[88], such as second-order consensus [89]–[91], adaptive consensus [92]–[94], consensus with constraints [95], [96], event-triggered consensus [97], [98], finite-time consensus [99], [100],…”
• Fully Distributed Event-Triggered Protocols for Linear Multiagent Networks (2018, background): “Similarly as in [24], we call (4) a hybrid or mixed triggering function.”
• Adaptive Event-Triggered Consensus of Multiagent Systems on Directed Graphs (2021, background): “Note that the triggering conditions in [27]–[29] for adaptive event-triggered consensus on undirected graphs and those in [18]–[26] for event-triggered consensus on undirected/directed graphs usually only have one inequality for event detection of each agent, similar to g (˜ x i ( t ik ) , ˜ x i (…”