Cooperative Global Robust Practical Output Regulation of Nonlinear Lower Triangular Multiagent Systems via Event-Triggered Control

IEEE Trans Cybern. 2022 Jul;52(7):5708-5719. doi: 10.1109/TCYB.2021.3054796. Epub 2022 Jul 4.

Abstract

In this article, the problem of cooperative global robust practical output regulation is examined for uncertain nonlinear multiagent systems in a lower triangular form via event-triggered control. The problem is dealt with in three steps. At the first step, a decentralized internal model is constructed based on the lower triangular form such that the regulation issue is translated to a stabilization one. Next, a nonlinear decentralized state-feedback controller is designed to achieve input-to-state stabilization with the sampling error as the input. In the third step, a simple event-triggering mechanism is embedded in the controller to achieve an event-based controller redesign. An illustrative example is presented to verify the theoretical results.