Event-Triggered Attitude Consensus of Multiple Rigid Body Systems With Prescribed Performance

The event-triggered almost global attitude consensus problem is considered in this article for multiple rigid body systems with prescribed performance. Two kinds of attitude consensus protocols using axis-angle vectors are proposed at the kinematic level with different prescribed performance constraints. The first protocol aims to achieve the event-triggered attitude consensus almost globally under jointly connected graphs. Based on a prescribed performance function with local states, the configuration space of parameterized attitude representations is shown to be positively invariant which almost globally covers $\mathbb {SO}(3)$ . The second protocol is designed to reach attitude consensus with the prescribed transient behavior guaranteed in the event-triggered setting. By defining a prescribed performance function using the metric on axis-angle spaces, a dynamic event-triggered framework is designed to ensure both the attitude geometric topology constraint and prescribed convergence performance. Finally, numerical results are given to show the validness of the two control protocols.