Dynamic Event-Triggered Cooperative Adaptive Optimal Output Regulation for Multiagent Systems With Input Saturation
Fuyu Zhao, Sunxiaoyu Luo, Liang Zhao, Changyun Wen · IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics Systems · 2026
This article investigates event-triggered cooperative adaptive optimal output regulation for unknown discrete-time multiagent systems (MASs) with input saturation. To address the issue that some followers may have no direct access to the leader, distributed observers are proposed to estimate the reference signals. A dynamic event-triggering mechanism is introduced to reduce communication and computational costs. By combining the internal model principle with low-gain and policy iteration (PI) techniques, an inner-outer loop-based dynamic event-triggered adaptive optimal control approach is developed. The convergence of the proposed algorithm is rigorously analyzed, and the control inputs are explicitly constrained within the input limits. A comprehensive stability analysis is provided, along with conditions for the MASs to achieve leader-to-formation stability (LFS). The sensitivity of the suboptimality index to system parameters is also taken into consideration. Finally, the effectiveness of the proposed approach is validated through a simulation example applied to grid-connected ac microgrid control.