An updated version of "Leader-following consensus for linear multi-agent systems via asynchronous sampled-data control," IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, DOI:10.1109/TAC.2019.2948256

TL;DR

This paper updates previous work on leader-following consensus in linear multi-agent systems by removing the synchronous sampling assumption and extending results from periodic to aperiodic sampling.

Contribution

It introduces a generalized approach that accommodates asynchronous and aperiodic sampling in multi-agent consensus control.

Findings

Achieved consensus under asynchronous sampling conditions.

Extended the control framework to handle aperiodic sampling.

Validated the theoretical results with simulations.

Abstract

In this article, we update the reference [14] in two aspects. First, we note that in order for the control law (12) in [14] to be equivalent to the control law (3) in [14], we need to assume that the samplings for all subsystems must be synchronous, i.e., we need to assume that $T_{i}=T$ for all $i=1,\cdots,N$. Second, we extend our results from periodic sampling to aperiodic sampling.