Event-driven fully distributed optimal coordinated control for Euler–Lagrange multi-agent systems with connectivity preservation

This paper studies the distributed optimal coordinated control problem for Euler–Lagrange multi-agent systems with connectivity preservation. The aim is to force agents to achieve the optimal solution minimizing the sum of the local objective functions while guaranteeing the connectivity of the communication graph. For practical purposes, the gradient vector of the local objective function is allowed to use only at the real-time generalized position instead of at the auxiliary system state. To make the control parameters independent of the global information and guarantee the fully distributed manner of controller, the adaptive control is introduced to update the coupling weights of the relative states among neighbors. Moreover, to reduce the resource for control updates, the event-driven communication is employed for the updates of both the relative states and the gradient of the connectivity-preserving potential function. Based on the Lyapunov analysis framework, it is proved that agents can converge to the optimal solution with connectivity preservation and Zeno behavior is excluded for the two event-triggering conditions. Finally, the effectiveness of the proposed method is verified by a numerical simulation example.