Event‐Triggered Finite‐Time Group Bipartite Consensus Control for Multi‐Agent Systems With Input Saturation

ABSTRACT This paper mainly studies the finite‐time group bipartite consensus problem for multi‐agent systems (MASs) with input saturation, coexisting competition, and cooperation. In view of actuator saturation and reducing the frequency of information interaction, a novel event‐triggered control protocol by employing the arctangent function is proposed. It is demonstrated that applying this protocol, the finite‐time group bipartite consensus and group consensus can be obtained under the structurally balanced and unbalanced topologies, respectively. Furthermore, the Zeno behavior is proved to be excluded. Finally, numerical simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness of our control protocol.