Consensus of heterogeneous multi-agent systems with delayed and intermittent communications

摘要

This paper studies leader-following consensus of a class of heterogeneous multi-agent systems composed of first-order and second-order agents with delayed and intermittent communications. We propose a distributed consensus algorithm based on the delayed and intermittent information of neighboring agents. Some sufficient conditions are obtained to guarantee the consensus of heterogeneous multi-agent systems in terms of bilinear matrix inequalities (BMIs). Meanwhile, the relationship between communication duration and time delay over each control period is sought out. Finally, the effectiveness of the main results is illustrated by numerical simulations.