Consensus in Fractional-Order Multi-Agent Systems With Intermittence Sampled Data Over Directed Networks.

The leaderless consensus of fractional-order multi-agent systems (FOMASs) by intermittence sampled data control method is investigated in this brief, for which a distributed intermittence sampled data control protocol is presented to reduce the updating rate and working time of controllers. Subsequently, the Laplace transform and the stability theory are utilized to derive some necessary and sufficient consensus criteria that show the relations among the fractional order, sampling period, communication width, coupling strengths, and network topology. What is more, it can be discovered that both the communication width and sampling period have the lower and upper bounds for given networks to attain leaderless consensus. Finally, a numerical simulation example is presented to prove the theoretical results. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]