Event-based control for average consensus of multi-agent systems

Average consensus is critical in synchronization and coordination control of networked dynamical systems. In this note the event-based average consensus problem is studied. By appropriate event design, discontinuous threshold is employed and thus continuous communication among agents can be avoided to reduce energy consumption in practice. Moreover, it is showed that the proposed event-triggered control can achieve average consensus with fewer events and faster consensus rate compared with existing works. Simulation results have shown the effectiveness of the proposed approach.