1. Synchronization of Multiagent Systems Using Event-Triggered and Self-Triggered Broadcasts.
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Almeida, Joao, Silvestre, Carlos, and Pascoal, Antonio
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DECENTRALIZED control systems , *DIGITAL control systems , *MULTIAGENT systems , *SYNCHRONIZATION , *EIGENVALUES , *EIGENFUNCTIONS , *LINEAR systems , *TRAJECTORY optimization - Abstract
This paper addresses the problem of synchronizing a group of identical linear time-invariant agents that exchange information through a communication network. The agents may only broadcast information at discrete-time instants and the decision to execute a broadcast is based on an event-triggered communication protocol. We prove that with the proposed control architecture the state of each agent converges to and remains in a neighborhood of a desired reference signal and the closed-loop system does not exhibit Zeno solutions. A self-triggered implementation of the proposed event-triggered communication protocol is also derived. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2017
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