Self-triggered control of heterogeneous multiagent systems with input saturation

This paper is concerned with the semi-global output synchronization problem of a heterogeneous network under self-triggered control. A distributed self-triggered control scheme in which only local information is used to compute the triggering instants is proposed. In addition, the Zeno behavior can be excluded in the designed scheme. By adopting the low-gain technique, it is shown that the input saturation nonlinearity can be avoided if the parameter of the parameterized feedback gain is chosen small enough. The algorithm for implementing the self-triggered rule is also presented in the paper.