Nonfragile Consensus of Multiagent Systems Based on Memory Sampled-Data Control.

In this paper, we address the consensus tracking problem for the multiagent system (MAS) based on a nonfragile memory sampled-data controller. Considering the effect of controller gain fluctuation and communication delay, a novel sampled-data control scheme with variable sampling interval is designed for each agent. By developing some new terms, an improved piecewise Lyapunov–Krasovskii functional (LKF) is constructed to take full advantage of characteristic about real sampling pattern. Furthermore, some relaxed matrices constructed in the LKF are not necessarily positive definite. Making full use of the LKF and free-matrix-based integral inequality, some sufficient criteria are developed to ensure the consistency of the MAS. Then, by solving a group of linear matrix inequalities with the maximal sampling interval, the desired sampled-data control gain matrix is obtained. Finally, the numerical example of a 5-agent system is given to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach in this paper. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]