Event-triggered design for optimal output consensus of high-order multi-agent systems

In this paper, we study the optimal output consensus problem for networked linear multi-agent systems. Existing distributed algorithms usually rely on continuous communication among neighbouring agents or continuous update of each agent's local controller. To save communication and computation resources, we apply event-triggered technique to this optimal output consensus problem. We first constructively develop an event-triggered algorithm with a set of applicable parameters relying on event-triggered communication and control and show its effectiveness in solving the problem by rigorous proofs. Then we extend it to the case where the triggering conditions only have to be checked in some sampling time instants. Two simulation examples are given to illustrate the efficacy of our designs.