Distributed Output Feedback Consensus Control of Multiple Lur’e Systems Based on Event-triggered Mechanism

In this paper, the output feedback consensus control problem is investigated for a class of multi-agent systems with Lur’e non-linear dynamics over directed topology. Based on the distributed observer, a novel distributed event-triggered consensus protocol is proposed. The proposed event-triggered protocol removes the limitations of continuous communication and saves the on-board resources, that is, the continuous communication is avoided for both controller updating and event-triggered condition monitoring. Furthermore, the consensus is proved by Lyapunov method and Zeno behavior is excluded. Finally, simulation results attests to the properties of the proposed protocols.