Distributed fixed-time adaptive event-triggered consensus for switched nonlinear multi-agent systems with input delays

In this paper, a fixed-time adaptive event-triggered (FAET) consensus problem is considered for switched nonlinear multi-agent systems (NMASs). To reduce the wastage of communication resources(WCRs), an event-triggering mechanism (ETM) and the NMASs adaptive controller are designed. Furthermore, the Pade approximation method is employed to transform the system into an input delay-free one. By selecting the common Lyapunov function (CLF), the consensus errors of switched NMASs are bounded in a fixed-time can be proven. Besides, the Zeno phenomenon does not exist. Finally, the presented strategy’s effectiveness is demonstrated by the results of simulation.