Event‐Triggered Communication and Control for Multi‐Agent Average Consensus
Cameron Nowzari, Jorge Cortés, George J. Pappas · 2017
This chapter presents a high-level overview of the ideas behind event-triggered communication and control applied to multi-agent average consensus problems. It shows the progression of event-triggered consensus problems. This is a very narrow scope on the field of event-triggered consensus problems intended to introduce the high-level ideas behind event-triggered communication and control laws and provide insight into how they are designed. Triggered controllers seek to understand the trade-offs between computation, communication, sensing, and actuator effort in achieving a desired task with a guaranteed level of performance. Several works have explored the application of event-triggered ideas to the acquisition of information by the agents rather than only for actuation. Team-triggered coordination combines the strengths of event- and self-triggered control into a unified approach for networked systems. The chapter introduces some notational conventions and notions on graph theory.