An Event-Triggered Control Approach to Cooperative Output Regulation of Heterogeneous Multi-Agent Systems

This paper presents a novel distributed event triggered control approach to cooperative output regulation of heterogeneous multi-agent systems. First, we propose a basic event triggered control scheme. Next, building on this result, we propose a distributed self triggered control scheme, such that continuous monitoring of measurement errors can be avoided. With these proposed control schemes, Zeno behavior can be excluded for each agent by introducing a fixed timer in the triggering mechanism. An example is finally provided to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed control schemes. (C) 2016, IFAC (International Federation Control) Hosting By Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserverd.