Model-Based Event-Triggered Control over Lossy Networks

Abstract: The event-triggered control problem over lossy communication networks is addressed in this paper. Although packet dropouts have been considered in the implementation of event-triggered controllers, the assumption of protocols that employ acknowledgement messages persists. This paper provides an approach that relaxes such assumption. An event-based controller is implemented at the sensor node of the networked and uncertain system and it transmits feedback measurements to the controller node at asynchronous time instants. The transmitted packets of information are subject to dropouts by the lossy network. We show that the uncertain system can be asymptotically stabilized, that a positive minimum inter-event time exists, and that the proposed approach does not require acknowledgement messages.