Neural network-based event-triggered cluster quasi-consensus for unknown multiagent systems with directed topology

This paper studies cluster quasi-consensus problem for a class of unknown nonlinear multiagent systems (MASs) with directed communication topology. First, a distributed continuous neural network (NN)-based adaptive protocol is presented for solving this problem by introducing reference model to each agent. Then, taking limited communication resource and energy consumption into account, a distributed event-triggered cluster quasi-consensus protocol is proposed. Different from the existing results, two event-triggered mechanisms are constructed in the proposed event-triggered protocol to reduce communication load and control update frequency as possible. The sufficient conditions that guarantee cluster quasi-consensus under the both proposed protocols are obtained, respectively. Zeno behavior is proved to be excluded. Finally, simulation results verify the effectiveness of the proposed protocols.