Distributed event-based consensus control of multi-agent system with matching nonlinear uncertainties

Event-triggered scheme for multi-agent system is motivated by the network systems with limited communication and energy resources. In our paper, the event-triggered consensus problem of multi-agent system with heterogeneous matching uncertainties is considered. An event-based distributed adaptive controller and a novel event-triggered rule without continuous communication among agents are proposed, with which the consensus errors are uniformly bounded and all the agents could converge to an adjustable small bounded set exponentially. Meanwhile, the Zeno behavior is excluded with the designed control strategy. Finally, numerical examples are given to illustrate the effectiveness of the theoretical analysis.