Practical consensus for heterophilous multiagent networks with constrained states

This paper studies practical consensus problems for continuous-time multiagent systems with heterophilous dynamics. Agents in the network tend to cease communication when they are close enough each other inspired by heterophily principle social and opinion We propose two types of state constraints on dynamical agents, which hard constraint refers exogenous restrictions that rule entire evolution agent behavior soft turns out be endogenous only ultimate equilibria agents restricted. Sufficient conditions have been established achieve both constrained systems. Numerical simulations show time grows logarithmically, revealing a rapid convergence respect disagreement initial conditions.