Considering the asymmetry of the system matrix caused by directed communication networks, a dynamic event-triggered control protocol for the robust consensus of uncertain linear multi-agent systems accompanied by external disturbances on directed topologies is proposed. Through the introduction of the controlled output and generalized algebraic connectivity for directed graphs, the consensus problem is converted to the event-triggered stabilization of the uncertain linear closed-loop system with disturbance. On the basis of the relative state of neighbor agents at event-times and the introduced dynamic variables, a dynamic event-triggered control protocol is put forward, and the linear matrix inequality sufficient conditions for the system to achieve robust consensus are obtained after a rigorous proof. Then, linear matrix inequalities are further decoupled to greatly reduce the computational complexity, and the parameters of the control protocol are determined by solving the decoupled linear matrix inequalities. Finally, simulations are applied for the verification of conclusions.
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