Containment control of general linear multi-agent systems by event-triggered control mechanisms

This paper discusses the containment control (CC) problem of general linear multi-agent systems (MAS)s by means of two kinds of distributed event-triggered mechanisms. Two types of event-triggered control protocols, namely, the state feedback control law and the dynamic output feedback control protocol, are designed for each follower. Under the proposed control protocols and triggering mechanisms, the containment control problem can be solved by proving that the containment error converges to zero based on the assumption and algorithms. At last, we verify the rationality of the theoretical results. Through two numerical simulation, we can see that the trajectory of each follower converges to the convex hull formed by all leaders. In addition, in order to verify the advantages of the obtained results, we give a simulation example and compare the methods designed in this paper with the methods in other literature. (c) 2020 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.