On a Potential Game-theoretic Approach to Event-triggered Distributed Resource Allocation

This paper proposes a potential game theoretic approach to address event-triggered distributed resource allocation in multi-agent systems. The fitness dynamic of the population is proposed and exploited as a linear parametervarying dynamic to achieve the event-triggered distributed resource allocation. Firstly, it is shown that the dynamic resembles a consensus protocol and is equivalent to the replicator dynamic. Further, conditions ensuring a minimum time bound on the inter-sampling intervals to avoid Zeno-behavior have been derived. An economic dispatch problem is presented to illustrate the theoretical results.