Event-triggered consensus of nonlinear multi-agent systems with nonlinear interconnections

This paper investigates the consensus problem for a set of nonlinear multi-agent systems with nonlinear interconnections. First, in order to reduce the communication burden in the multi-agent network, a distributed event-triggered consensus control is designed by taking into account the effect of the nonlinear interconnections. Then, based on the Lyapunov functional method and the Kronecker product technique, sufficient conditions are obtained to guarantee the consensus in the form of linear matrix inequality (LMI). Finally, a simulation example is proposed to illustrate the effectiveness of the developed theory.