Distributed Event-Triggered Adaptive Control for Cooperative Output Regulation of Heterogeneous Multiagent Systems Under Switching Topology

This paper investigates the cooperative output regulation problem for heterogeneous multiagent systems (MASs) under switching topology. Two novel distributed event-triggered adaptive control strategies based on state feedback and output feedback are developed, which can avoid using the minimal nonzero eigenvalue of Laplacian matrix associated with global system topologies. It is shown that under the proposed control protocols, MASs could achieve asymptotic tracking and disturbance rejection, and meanwhile, the amount of transmission data and communication cost among agents can be reduced. Then, the leader-following consensus problem of MASs is given as an application of our main results. Finally, an example is presented to verify the effectiveness of the proposed control schemes.