Fully distributed event-triggered containment control for complex networks

This paper studies the fully distributed containment control problem of complex networks (CNs) with the event-triggered coupling. Firstly, to achieve the considered containment control without requiring any global information, the suitable adaptive laws for coupling strengths between neighbouring nodes are designed. Then, a fully distributed event-triggered scheme is introduced, under which the coupling communication resources can be effectively saved. In this scheme, continuous coupling communication will be avoided in the updating of control laws and the monitoring of triggering function. Besides, the Zeno behaviour is excluded by showing that the interval between any two triggering events is lower-bounded by a strictly positive value. Finally, a simulation example is presented to verify the effectiveness of our obtained results.