Prescribed-Time Output Consensus of Heterogeneous Multi-Agent Systems: A
Hybrid Sampling Strategy
Abstract
This paper investigates the prescribed-time output consensus (PTOC) of
heterogeneous multi-agent systems (MASs) based on sampled data. Firstly,
a novel dynamic compensator is designed for each agent and its state is
used to interact with its neighbors. Then, a hybrid sampling strategy
(HSS), including a dynamic event-triggered sampling (ETS) and a
time-triggered sampling (TTS), is developed to determine when to sample
and broadcast the compensator state of agents. The execution of the HSS
is divided into two steps, a dynamic ETS is presented before the first
prescribed-time (PT) where the dynamic threshold decays to zero as time
approaches the first PT. Subsequently, a TTS with a constant sampling
period (CSP) is introduced after the first PT. With the proposed HSS,
all compensators achieve the state consensus at the first PT while
excluding the Zeno behavior. Based on the proposed dynamic compensators
and the HSS, a fully distributed controller with high scalability and
flexibility is developed. Through the Lyapunov stability theory, it is
proved that the heterogeneous MASs with the proposed controller achieve
the output consensus at the second PT (after the first PT). Finally, a
simulation example on 8-wheeled mobile robots is performed to verify the
validity of the theoretical results.