Time- and Event-Triggered Communication for Multi-Agent Systems-Part I: General Framework

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Dolk, V. S.; Scheres, K. J. A.; Postoyan, R.; Heemels, W. P. M. H.
• 署名单位: Eindhoven University of Technology; Universite de Lorraine; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
• 刊物名称: IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AUTOMATIC CONTROL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0018-9286
• DOI: 10.1109/TAC.2024.3427908
• 发表日期: 2025
• 关键词: SAMPLED-DATA CONSENSUS; stabilizing control; hybrid systems; NONUNIFORM; strategy; vehicles; DELAYS; gain

摘要

We present a framework for the design of time- and event-triggered communication schemes for a broad class of multiagent systems (MAS). The framework is general in the sense that we consider a class of heterogeneous nonlinear MAS with directed communication graphs subject to disturbances and the inevitable imperfections induced by packet-based networked communication, such as time-varying transmission delays and intervals. Under suitable conditions, the designed distributed time- or event-triggered communication schemes lead to an MAS that is dissipative with respect to a desired supply rate, and thus can be used to study various properties such as L-p-gain stability, input-to-state stability, and passivity. Strictly positive lower bounds on the interevent times are ensured and robustness to nonuniform time-varying delays in terms of maximum allowable delays is guaranteed. In addition, the framework allows for the consideration of destination protocols, which determine, at each transmission instant, to which (groups of) agent(s) a local output measurement is being transmitted. These destination protocols can be used to include packet loss and denial-of-service, as will be shown in the second part of this paper.