Distributed leader-following consensus control based optimal design for multi-agent systems with intermittent communications

Abstract

In this paper, without assuming that the mobile agents can communicate with their neighbors all the time, the leader-following consensus control problem of multi-agent systems based optimal design is investigated.To achieve consensus tracking, a new type of distributed consensus tracking control protocols utilizing optimal control based only on the intermittent relative information is presented, and constructed by the proposed algorithm in this work. Furthermore, it is proved further that the designed protocol can guarantee the consensus tracking if each agent is stabilizable and the communication rate is larger than a threshold value. Finally, a simulation is proved to verify the theoretical results.