We consider the problem of global leader‐following consensus of a multi‐agent system with intermittent directed communication in the presence of actuator saturation. The dynamics of the follower agents are represented by a chain of integrators of an arbitrary length. The leader agent possesses the same internal dynamics of the follower agents. For each follower agent, a bounded consensus algorithm utilizing the information obtained intermittently through the communication network is constructed. It is shown that these consensus algorithms achieve global leader‐following consensus as long as the communication topology among all agents, when the communication is active, contains a spanning tree rooted at the leader agent. Numerical examples are given to show the theoretical results.

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在执行器饱和的情况下具有间歇性定向通信的多智能体系统的全局共识

在执行器饱和的情况下，我们考虑了具有间歇性定向通信的多代理系统的全局领导者遵循共识的问题。随从代理的动态由任意长度的积分器链表示。领导者代理人具有与跟随者代理人相同的内部动力。对于每个跟随者代理，构造一种利用通过通信网络间歇获得的信息的有界共识算法。结果表明，只要通讯之间处于活动状态，所有座席之间的通信拓扑都包含一个根植于领导者座席上的生成树，那么这些共识算法就可以实现全局领导者跟随共识。数值算例表明了理论结果。