Fixed-Time Consensus of Second-Order Leader-Following Multi-agent Systems via Event-Triggered Intermittent Control

In this article, a novel event-triggered aperiodic intermittent control (ETAIC) approach is developed to investigate the fixed-time (FXT) consensus issue of second-order leader-following multi-agent systems (MASs). First, for the case that followers cannot receive information directly from the leader, a distributed observer is presented to estimate the leader’s state in FXT. Second, in order to reduce resource consumption, a distributed aperiodic intermittent controller is designed. Moreover, by using FXT stability theory and inequality technique, some sufficient conditions are given to guarantee the FXT consensus, and Zeno phenomenon can be excluded. Finally, the correctness of the main results is demonstrated by an example.