Adaptive Event-Triggered Consensus of Fractional-Order Nonlinear Multi-Agent Systems

The leader-following consensus of fractional-order nonlinear multi-agent systems is studied in this paper. An adaptive event-triggered control protocol is proposed to achieve the leader-following consensus scheme. By applying Lyapunov stability theory of fractional-order systems and some effective inequality techniques, some sufficient conditions for ensuring the consensus are derived intensively, and the proposed control method can reduce the communication between the agents greatly. Moreover, the Zeno behavior of event-triggered algorithm for multi-agent systems is excluded. Finally, a simulation example is presented to validate the effectiveness of the proposed consensus protocol.