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Rendezvous problem of nonholonomic unicycles has been considered in this paper and nonlinear distributed controllers based on backstepping are constructed to guarantee the consensus of both position and direction simultaneously. Cascaded theory of nonlinear system is utilised to reduce the rendezvous problem of nonholonomic unicycles to consensus problem of moving direction and consensus problem of position, respectively. The uncontrollable challenge of position system after consensus of moving direction has been successfully removed through dilated coordinate transformation. Then, a modified backstepping methodology based on the coupling structure of position system is derived to guarantee the consensus of each unicycle's position. In the end, not only consensus of position but also consensus of direction has been realised for multiple nonholonomic unicycles using the controllers proposed in this paper. Simulation results using Matlab illustrate the effectiveness of the results of this paper. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper investigates the distributed adaptive event-triggered consensus control for a class of nonlinear agents. Each agent is subject to input saturation. Two kinds of distributed event-triggered control scheme are introduced, one is continuous-time-based event-triggered scheme and the other is sampled-data-based event-triggered scheme. Compared with the traditional event-triggered schemes in the existing literatures, the parameters of the event-triggered schemes in this paper are adaptively adjusted by using some event-error-dependent adaptive laws. The problem of simultaneously deriving the controller gain matrix and the event-triggering parameter matrix, and tackling the saturation nonlinearity is cast into standard linear matrix inequalities problem. A convincing simulation example is given to demonstrate the theoretical results. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]