Event-triggered consensus of general linear multi-agent systems with directed topology

In this paper, consensus problem of general linear multi-agent systems is investigated with distributed event-triggered strategy, where directed communication topology is considered. Firstly, a distributed event-triggered controller is designed, so that the controller updates for each agent only trigger at its own triggering time instants. Then, a sufficient condition is presented to guarantee the consensus. It is shown that by utilizing only the information of neighbors, which is transmitted by neighbors at their own triggering time instants, consensus can be achieved asymptotically. Finally, a simulation example is presented to verify the theoretical results.