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A performance function confines synchronization deviation of each agent within a user-designed envelope that quantifies both convergence speed and permissible steady-state offset. Logarithmic barrier certificates are embedded into the recursive control construction to prevent any state variable from exiting its admissible region. Unknown plant nonlinearities are compensated via Gaussian radial basis function approximators, and a first-order filter bypasses the repeated analytic differentiation that complicates traditional recursive designs. To reduce frequent actuator adjustments, each agent\u2019s control signal is refreshed only at aperiodic instants governed by a local dynamic triggering rule depending exclusively on its own measurements. A Lyapunov analysis confirms that all closed-loop trajectories remain semi-globally uniformly bounded, the synchronization errors obey the imposed performance limits, the state restrictions are never breached, and infinitely many triggering attempts cannot accumulate in finite time. 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