Multi‐stage dynamic event‐triggered containment control of nonlinear multi‐agent systems with input‐bounded leaders and time‐varying delay

Abstract

This article immerses in the event‐triggered containment control problem for a Lipschitz‐like nonlinear multi‐agent system with multiple active leaders. First, two event‐triggered mechanisms with internal dynamic variables are designed in both sensor‐observer (S‐O) and controller‐actuator (C‐A) channels to monitor data transmission and reduce communication burden. Second, an observer is constructed with the aid of the output information to estimate the states that cannot be acquired directly. Then, a control protocol considering time‐varying communications delays is proposed based on the observer. Third, the boundedness analysis of the containment error system is constructed by Lyapunov stability theory, the sufficient conditions are given in light of strict feasible LMIs. Finally, the validity of the proposed controller is verified by two simulations.