Wei Zhu

TL;DR: The advantage of the event-based strategy is the significant decrease of the number of controller updates for cooperative tasks of multi-agent systems involving embedded microprocessors with limited on-board resources.

TL;DR: The problem of second-order leader-following consensus by a novel distributed event-triggered sampling scheme in which agents exchange information via a limited communication medium is studied and it is shown that the inter-event intervals are lower bounded by a strictly positive constant, which excludes the Zeno-behavior before the consensus is achieved.

TL;DR: It is shown that continuous communication between neighboring agents can be avoided and the Zeno-behavior of triggering time sequences is excluded and a numerical example is presented to illustrate the effectiveness of the obtained theoretical results.

TL;DR: Not only is it proved that a consensus is reachable asymptotically but also an estimation of the convergence rate is given.

TL;DR: Under the designed event-triggered protocol, by selecting suitable parameters, for any directed digital network containing a spanning tree, the distributed average consensus can be always achieved with an exponential convergence rate based on merely one bit information exchange between each pair of adjacent agents at each time step.