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Cooperative output regulation of heterogeneous linear multi-agent systems with edge-event triggered adaptive control under time-varying topologies

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This paper discusses the cooperative output regulation (COR) problem for the heterogeneous linear multi-agent systems (MAS)s with time-varying communication topologies. Both full distributed state asynchronous edge-event triggered adaptive controller and dynamic output feedback asynchronous edge-event triggered adaptive controller are designed, which all can ensure that COR problem is achieved and Zeno behavior will not exist in the MASs. Different from other works about COR problem, one of the highlights of the paper is that agents in the MASs are divided into three groups, that is, exosystem, informed agents directly receive external signal and uninformed agents that cannot directly receive external signal. The communication between the exosystem and the informed agents is not continuous by designing the event-triggered mechanism or asynchronous edge-based mechanism in the link composed of the exosystem and the informed agent. Between the informed agent and the uninformed agent, the asynchronous edge-based mechanism is proposed to reduce communication in the MASs. The methods designed can effectively reduce the waste of system resources. Note that the triggering mechanisms and adaptive controllers are all not required global information of the networks.

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (61627809, 61433004, 61621004), and Liaoning Revitalization Talents Program (XLYC1801005).

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    Juan Zhang, Huaguang Zhang & Shaoxin Sun

  2. School of Mechanical Engineering and Automation, Northeastern University, Shenyang, Liaoning, China

    Yanzheng Lu

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Zhang, J., Zhang, H., Lu, Y. et al. Cooperative output regulation of heterogeneous linear multi-agent systems with edge-event triggered adaptive control under time-varying topologies. Neural Comput & Applic 32, 15573–15584 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00521-020-04883-x

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