Event‐Triggered Cooperative Output Regulation of Switched Multi‐Agent Systems With Frequent Asynchronism

ABSTRACT This paper investigates the cooperative output regulation (COR) problem for switched multi‐agent systems (MASs) with frequent asynchronism via an event‐triggered mechanism (ETM). In order to reduce the conservatism of the traditional approach that allows only one switching during the event interval, the frequent asynchronous switching strategy is introduced into the MASs with switching dynamics. This eliminates the restriction on the minimum dwell time for individual subsystems, and thus permits to switch more frequently during a triggered interval. Subsequently, a distributed event‐triggered dynamic compensator is designed. This compensator effectively facilitates the MASs to realize asymptotic tracking of the reference input while successfully rejecting the external disturbance. In contrast to the current achievements, the ETM presented in this article eliminates the need for any global information and avoids persistent communication between neighboring agents. Finally, the rationality of the proposed approach is confirmed by two examples.