Sampled-Hold-Based Consensus Control for Second-Order Multiagent Systems Under Aperiodically Intermittent Communication.

In this paper, the consensus problem for a class of second-order multi-agent systems under aperiodically intermittent communication is investigated. First, a new sampled-hold-based intermittent control protocol is designed to achieve consensus and improve the consensus performance in the absence of continuous communication. Then, some necessary and sufficient conditions are obtained for second-order consensus based on the relationship of the control gains, the eigenvalues of the Laplacian matrix, and the intermittent communication architecture. Moreover, if the sampled-hold-based aperiodically intermittent control is degenerated into the aperiodically intermittent control or the sampled-hold-based periodically intermittent control, some simpler consensus conditions are also given. Finally, some experimental simulations are shown to verify the correctness of the theoretical analysis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]