Distributed output consensus of heterogeneous linear multi‐agent systems with dynamic quantization

The output consensus problem for heterogeneous linear multi‐agent systems (MASs) without strongly connected communication graphs is investigated via quantization communication. In this work, we propose an efficient distributed control law composed of distributed quantized observers and compensators to accomplish this task. Particularly, we first employ a dynamic encoding–decoding scheme to design the distributed quantized observer, which is able to accurately estimate the state of the leader for MASs. Then, an appropriate compensator is constructed to show that asymptotic output consensus can be achieved with 5‐level quantizer, even if neither global knowledge of communication graphs nor the information about initial states of all agents is required. Finally, a numerical example is used to validate the effectiveness of our distributed control law for MASs.