Leader-following mean square consensus of stochastic multi-agent systems with ROUs and RONs under periodically variable impulse time windows.

In order to bring the theoretical results into harmony or agreement with the reality, this paper copes with the leader-following mean square consensus issue for a class of nonlinear stochastic multi-agent systems with randomly occurring nonlinearities (RONs) and randomly occurring uncertainties (ROUs) under impulse time windows (ITWs). As a majorizing preconfigured mechanism of the windows, the configuration named periodically variable impulse time windows (PVITWs) is put forward. It not only ensures the periodic-based layout of impulse time window (ITW), but also allows the position and width of the window to be arbitrarily adjustable, so that the preset of ITW is more suitable for applications. Based on the Lyapunov stability theory and graph theory, the corresponding sufficient mean square consensus criteria are given. Finally, the feasibility of theoretical analysis is illustrated by numerical simulations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]