Consensus analysis of systems with time-varying interactions : An event-triggered approach

Abstract

We present consensus analysis of systems with single integrator dynamics interacting via time-varying graphs under the event-triggered control paradigm. Event-triggered control sparsifies the control applied, thus reducing the control effort expended. Initially, we consider a multi-agent system with persistently exciting interactions and study the behaviour under the application of event-triggered control with two types of trigger functions-static and dynamic trigger. We show that while in the case of static trigger, the edge-states converge to a ball around the origin, the dynamic trigger function forces the states to reach consensus exponentially. Finally, we extend these results to a more general setting where we consider switching topologies. We show that similar results can be obtained for agents interacting via switching topologies and validate our results by means of simulations.