Dynamic Event Triggers

Abstract

The objective of this chapter is to extend the small-gain-based event-trigger design to nonlinear uncertain systems with partial-state or output feedback. For nonlinear systems with only partial state available to feedback, it is nontrivial to design static event triggers for asymptotic stabilization even if the system is disturbance-free. By introducing dynamics to the event triggers, this chapter proposes a new class of dynamic event triggers to address this issue. An application of the dynamic event triggers to decentralized event-triggered control is also presented. This chapter focuses on the systems without external disturbances, and a more general design which is capable of handling both dynamic uncertainties and external disturbances is introduced in Chap. 5.