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Event-Triggered Schemes for Leader- Following Consensus of Multi-agent Systems

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This chapter is concerned with event-triggered schemes for leader-following consensus of multi-agent systems. Some preliminaries and problem formulation are given in Sect. 2. Three different kinds of effective event-triggered schemes are designed in Sect. 3 for general linear multi-agent systems. Furthermore, an impulsive framework is constructed to further analyze clustered event-triggered schemes from a new perspective in Sect. 4. In this chapter, all proposed event-triggered schemes are effective to guarantee the leader-following consensus and to exclude Zeno behavior.

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This work was supported in part by the Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (CityU 11200717) and a CityU grant (7005029), in part by the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province under Grant BK20180367, the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant 61803082 and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, and in part by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation of Germany. This work was also supported by ZhiShan Youth Scholar Program from Southeast University.

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  1. School of Mathematics, Southeast University, Nanjing, China

    Wenying Xu

  2. Department of Mathematics, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China

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  3. Department of Mathematics, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China

    Daniel W. C. Ho

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Xu, W., Ho, D.W.C. (2022). Event-Triggered Schemes for Leader- Following Consensus of Multi-agent Systems. In: Tian, YC., Levy, D.C. (eds) Handbook of Real-Time Computing. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-251-7_33

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