Periodic event-triggered control for nonlinear systems

Abstract

Resources limitations of embedded systems and networked control systems have motivated the development of novel controller implementation paradigms in order to reduce the potential conservatism of traditional clock-driven setups. In this context periodic event-triggered control has recently been proposed. Based on a periodically evaluated and statedependent criterion, it is decided, at every sampling instant, whether the control input needs to be updated or not. In this paper we propose a method for the design of periodic event-triggered controllers for nonlinear systems. We follow an emulation-based approach as we start from a known (continuously evaluated) event-triggered controller and we..