Integrated Adaptive Event-Triggered Control of Linear Multiagent Systems: A Distributed Event-Triggered Approach

The distributed event-triggered consensus problem of linear systems is studied in this article. Unlike the existing event-triggered adaptive consensus protocols, where the control gain is composed of an adaptive weight and a feedback matrix, this article proposes an integrated adaptive event-triggered control approach. The control gain matrix can be adaptively and intermittently updated according to the consensus behavior. It is proven that the developed event-triggered mechanism can reach consensus and avoid the Zeno behavior. Some simulation results are provided to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed protocols.