IEEE Trans Cybern. 2018 Apr;48(4):1110-1123. doi: 10.1109/TCYB.2017.2771560.
Event-triggered consensus of multiagent systems (MASs) has attracted tremendous attention from both theoretical and practical perspectives due to the fact that it enables all agents eventually to reach an agreement upon a common quantity of interest while significantly alleviating utilization of communication and computation resources. This paper aims to provide an overview of recent advances in event-triggered consensus of MASs. First, a basic framework of multiagent event-triggered operational mechanisms is established. Second, representative results and methodologies reported in the literature are reviewed and some in-depth analysis is made on several event-triggered schemes, including event-based sampling schemes, model-based event-triggered schemes, sampled-data-based event-triggered schemes, and self-triggered sampling schemes. Third, two examples are outlined to show applicability of event-triggered consensus in power sharing of microgrids and formation control of multirobot systems, respectively. Finally, some challenging issues on event-triggered consensus are proposed for future research.
多智能体系统（MASs）的事件触发一致性引起了理论和实际应用两方面的极大关注，因为它可以在显著减轻通信和计算资源利用的情况下，使得所有智能体最终在共同关注的数量上达成一致。本文旨在提供多智能体系统事件触发一致性的最新进展概述。首先，建立了多智能体事件触发操作机制的基本框架。其次，回顾了文献中报道的有代表性的结果和方法，并对几种事件触发方案进行了深入分析，包括基于事件的采样方案、基于模型的事件触发方案、基于采样数据的事件触发方案和自触发采样方案。第三，概述了两个示例，分别说明了事件触发一致性在微电网功率分配和多机器人系统编队控制中的应用。最后，提出了事件触发一致性的一些挑战性问题，以供未来研究。
