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This paper investigates the surrounding control problem of multiple unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) against false data injection (FDI) attacks and proposes a learning-based prescribed performance control (PPC) integrated with a dynamic event-trigger...

(This article belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,396 Views
17 Pages

20 August 2025

Islanded DC microgrids face challenges in voltage stability and communication overhead due to renewable energy variability. A novel enhanced distributed coordinated control framework, based on adaptive event-triggered mechanisms, is developed for the...

(This article belongs to the Section Industrial Electronics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
1,543 Views
25 Pages

7 November 2025

This paper addresses the cooperative formation control problem for a heterogeneous unmanned system composed of Unmanned Surface Vehicles (USVs) and Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) under coexisting constraints of actuator faults, time-varying co...

(This article belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,026 Views
26 Pages

23 September 2025

Municipal solid waste incineration (MSWI) plays a key role in advancing environmental sustainability. However, the current main furnace temperature control methods are difficult to solve the problems of strong coupling, equipment wear, and frequent d...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
939 Views
22 Pages

10 August 2026

The paper presents a Barrier Function Adaptive Event-Triggered (ET) Sliding Mode Controller (SMC) for a class of nonlinear systems with matched disturbances. The proposed approach integrates barrier-function-based gain adaptation into the event-trigg...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Control Systems: Theory and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,730 Views
19 Pages

Parameter-Adaptive Event-Triggered Sliding Mode Control for a Mobile Robot

  • Tri Duc Tran,
  • Trong Trung Nguyen,
  • Van Tu Duong,
  • Huy Hung Nguyen and
  • Tan Tien Nguyen

2 August 2022

Mobile robots have played a vital role in the transportation industries, service robotics, and autonomous vehicles over the past decades. The development of robust tracking controllers has made mobile robots a powerful tool that can replace humans in...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensors and Control in Robotics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
373 Views
25 Pages

11 July 2026

Time synchronization plays a critical role in enabling coordinated control and accurate data fusion in the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). However, most existing time-triggered synchronization protocols rely on periodic information exchange, wh...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Deployment and Control of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs))
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,798 Views
27 Pages

6 March 2025

In this study, the authors present an event-triggered control scheme for uncertain robot manipulators combined with an adaptive super-twisting algorithm to handle uncertain robot manipulator systems with unknown external uncertainties and disturbance...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Dynamics and Control System Design for Robot Manipulation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
2,804 Views
19 Pages

17 September 2020

A quantized-feedback-based adaptive event-triggered tracking problem is investigated for strict-feedback nonlinear systems with unknown nonlinearities and external disturbances. All state variables are quantized through a uniform quantizer and the qu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
294 Views
21 Pages

1 August 2026

For multi-permanent magnet synchronous motors (multi-PMSMs) with nonlinearity and uncertainty, an event-triggered nonlinear adaptive PI control is proposed. To enhance the synchronization of multi-PMSMs, a coordinated control strategy is implemented....

(This article belongs to the Section Automation and Control Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,586 Views
17 Pages

Adaptive Event-Triggered Consensus of Multi-Agent Systems in Sense of Asymptotic Convergence

  • Zhicheng Hou,
  • Zhikang Zhou,
  • Hai Yuan,
  • Weijun Wang and ,
  • Jian Wang and
  • Zheng Xu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

6 January 2024

In this paper, the asymptotic consensus control of multi-agent systems with general linear agent dynamics is investigated. A neighbor-based adaptive event-triggering strategy with a dynamic triggering threshold is proposed, which leads to a fully dis...

(This article belongs to the Section Intelligent Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,400 Views
22 Pages

18 June 2022

In this paper, we study the event-triggered integral sliding mode optimal tracking problem of nonlinear systems with matched and unmatched disturbances. The goal is to design an adaptive dynamic programming-based sliding-mode controller, which stabil...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Sliding Mode Control/Observer and Its Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,482 Views
17 Pages

Event-Triggered Adaptive Fault Tolerant Control for a Class of Uncertain Nonlinear Systems

  • Chenglong Zhu,
  • Chenxi Li,
  • Xinyi Chen,
  • Kanjian Zhang and ,
  • Xin Xin and
  • Haikun Wei
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

27 May 2020

This paper considers an adaptive fault-tolerant control problem for a class of uncertain strict feedback nonlinear systems, in which the actuator has an unknown drift fault and the loss of effectiveness fault. Based on the event-triggered theory, the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applications of Information Theory to Industrial and Service Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
282 Views
18 Pages

24 June 2026

This paper addresses the consensus problem for networked robotic sensors characterized by general linear dynamics and strict communication bandwidth limitations. We propose a weighted sliding integration-based adaptive dynamic event-triggered control...

(This article belongs to the Section Intelligent Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,927 Views
18 Pages

7 September 2021

In this paper, the dynamic event-triggered tracking control issue is studied for a class of unknown stochastic nonlinear systems with strict-feedback form. At first, neural networks (NNs) are used to approximate the unknown nonlinear functions. Then,...

(This article belongs to the Section B: Mathematics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,816 Views
21 Pages

12 August 2025

In this work, an adaptive dynamic programming (ADP)-based event-triggered infinite-horizon (H∞) control algorithm is proposed for high-precision speed regulation of permanent magnet synchronous motors (PMSMs). The H∞ control problem of PM...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Condition Monitoring of Distributed Energy Equipment and Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,029 Views
20 Pages

15 July 2024

This paper introduces an adaptive trajectory-tracking control method for uncertain nonlinear systems, leveraging a time-varying threshold event-triggered mechanism to achieve predefined-time tracking. Compared to conventional time-triggering approach...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensors and Robotics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,324 Views
18 Pages

13 November 2025

In this paper, an adaptive dynamic event-triggered sliding mode control scheme is proposed for a pneumatic vibration isolation platform. First, an experimental platform is designed and constructed, and a corresponding dynamic model is established, wh...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Human-Centric Intelligent Actuation Systems: Innovations in Control, Sensing, and Multidisciplinary Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
349 Views
25 Pages

1 August 2026

This study addresses an integrated security control and communication co-design problem for nonlinear CPSs subject to coexisting FDI attacks and actuator faults. A novel adaptive discrete event-triggered communication scheme (ADETCS) is proposed. Its...

(This article belongs to the Section Fault Diagnosis & Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,223 Views
20 Pages

Fixed-Time Adaptive Event-Triggered Control for Uncertain Nonlinear Systems Under Full-State Constraints

  • Yue Zhang,
  • Jietao Dai,
  • Zhenzhang Liu,
  • Ruizhi Tang and ,
  • Guoxiong Zheng and
  • Jianhui Wang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

5 May 2025

The problem of adaptive event-triggered control for uncertain nonlinear systems with full-state constraints was investigated. State constraints can significantly affect system performance, especially when time-varying external disturbances are presen...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Adaptive Fault-Tolerant Control Strategies for Uncertain Nonlinear Systems: Mitigating Actuator Faults)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,657 Views
32 Pages

Trajectory Tracking of Unmanned Logistics Vehicle Based on Event-Triggered and Adaptive Optimization Parameters MPC

  • Jiandong Qiu,
  • Dingqiang Lin,
  • Minan Tang,
  • Qiang Zhang and ,
  • Hailong Song and
  • Zixin Zhao
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

2 September 2024

Unmanned logistics vehicle (ULV) realize the automation and intelligence of cargo transportation, which improves the efficiency, cost-effectiveness and safety of logistics and distribution, while the trajectory tracking control of ULV is the key tech...

(This article belongs to the Section Automation Control Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
439 Views
24 Pages

This paper investigates the problem of adaptive event-triggered control with prescribed performance for a class of strictly feedback-controlled nonlinear systems with unknown initial tracking conditions. To overcome the dependence of traditional pres...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,113 Views
25 Pages

This article focuses on the projective synchronization control problem for a class of fractional-order complex-valued neural networks (FOCVNNs) with additive time-varying delays (ATVDs) subject to aperiodic denial-of-service (DoS) attacks. Initially,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fractional Order Complex Systems: Advanced Control, Intelligent Estimation and Reinforcement Learning Image Processing​ Algorithms, Second Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
649 Views
30 Pages

In this work, an adaptive event-triggered-based consensus control strategy is proposed for the quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicle (QUAV) formation system in the presence of external disturbances and state constraints. Firstly, the disturbed QUAV forma...

(This article belongs to the Section Aeronautics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,655 Views
19 Pages

27 December 2022

Aimed at the objective of anti-disturbance and reducing data transmission, this article discusses a novel dynamic neural network (DNN) modeling-based anti-disturbance control for a system under the framework of an event trigger. In order to describe...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Nonlinear Control Systems with Recent Advances and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,292 Views
16 Pages

24 October 2021

This paper investigates the problem of networked load frequency control (LFC) of power systems (PSs) against deception attacks. To lighten the load of the communication network, a new adaptive event-triggered scheme (ETS) is developed on the premise...

(This article belongs to the Section Communications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,162 Views
19 Pages

The synchronization of fractional-order chaotic systems is investigated using command-filtered adaptive fuzzy control with a disturbance observer, where an event-triggered mechanism and backstepping control technique are employed. In order to relieve...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applications of Fractional Operator in Image Processing and Stability of Control Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
1,711 Views
27 Pages

28 March 2025

This paper investigates the time-varying formation-tracking (TVFT) problem for multi-UAV systems (MUSs), where the followers need to achieve a predefined time-varying formation configuration while tracking the leader’s state. In order to reduce...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,394 Views
21 Pages

This brief investigates the Mittag–Leffler formation bounded control problem for second-order fractional multi-agent systems (FMASs), where the dynamical nodes of followers are modeled to satisfy quadratic (QUAD) condition. Firstly, under the u...

(This article belongs to the Section Complexity)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,782 Views
22 Pages

17 December 2024

With the rapid increase in vehicle ownership and increasingly stringent emission regulations, addressing the energy consumption of and emissions from commercial vehicles have become critical challenges. This study introduces a multi-objective coopera...

(This article belongs to the Section Control Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,571 Views
34 Pages

21 May 2022

This paper is concerned with the adaptive event-triggered finite-time pinning synchronization control problem for T-S fuzzy discrete complex networks (TSFDCNs) with time-varying delays. In order to accurately describe discrete dynamical behaviors, we...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Dynamics of Complex Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,137 Views
16 Pages

Modular multilevel converters (MMCs) have gained widespread adoption in high-voltage direct current (HVDC) transmission due to their high voltage levels, low harmonic content, and high scalability. However, conventional control methods such as finite...

(This article belongs to the Section Power Electronics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,375 Views
29 Pages

12 December 2024

Mixed zero-sum games consider both zero-sum and non-zero-sum differential game problems simultaneously. In this paper, multiplayer mixed zero-sum games (MZSGs) are studied by the means of an integral reinforcement learning (IRL) algorithm under the d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
331 Views
16 Pages

1 August 2026

This work investigates the adaptive event-triggered distributed estimation problem for discrete time-varying nonlinear stochastic systems over sensor networks exposed to replay attacks within a finite-horizon setting. The sensor network comprises mul...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Information Theory in Control Systems, 3rd Edition)
  • Technical Note
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,904 Views
19 Pages

Conventional droop control (a decentralized method to regulate power sharing by adjusting voltage–current slopes) in DC microgrids faces challenges in balancing precise current distribution, bus voltage regulation, and communication pressure, e...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue IoT Applications for Renewable Energy Management and Control, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
42 Citations
2,150 Views
24 Pages

29 October 2024

This article investigates the issue of H∞ security output feedback control for a nonlinear networked cascade control system with deception attacks. First, to further reduce the amount of communication data, reasonably schedule network resources...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Nonlinear Systems: Dynamics, Control, Optimization and Applications in Science and Engineering, 3rd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
318 Views
27 Pages

This paper investigates the predefined-time leader–follower consensus tracking problem for multiple Euler–Lagrange systems subject to actuator faults under a fractional-order dynamic event-triggered framework. First, to guarantee the conv...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
849 Views
33 Pages

Multi-UAV formation control in low-altitude urban environments faces critical challenges from atmospheric boundary layer (ABL) disturbances, including turbulence, wind gusts, and communication inefficiency in resource-constrained swarms. This paper p...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fractional Dynamics and Control in Multi-Agent Systems and Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,302 Views
32 Pages

This paper investigates the leader–follower consensus problem for fractional-order nonlinear multi-agent systems operating under simultaneous Sybil and Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks. The communication topology is modeled as a time-varying dir...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Dynamics and Control of Fractional-Order Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,143 Views
16 Pages

15 May 2024

This paper investigates decentralized adaptive event-triggered fault-tolerant control for interconnected nonlinear delay systems with actuator failures. The actuator failures suffered include loss of effectiveness and bias faults. A control scheme ba...

(This article belongs to the Section Control Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,055 Views
18 Pages

Adaptive Event-Triggered Synchronization of Uncertain Fractional Order Neural Networks with Double Deception Attacks and Time-Varying Delay

  • Zhuan Shen,
  • Fan Yang,
  • Jing Chen,
  • Jingxiang Zhang and ,
  • Aihua Hu and
  • Manfeng Hu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

30 September 2021

This paper investigates the problem of adaptive event-triggered synchronization for uncertain FNNs subject to double deception attacks and time-varying delay. During network transmission, a practical deception attack phenomenon in FNNs should be cons...

(This article belongs to the Topic Artificial Intelligence and Sustainable Energy Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,602 Views
19 Pages

17 January 2025

Moving bottlenecks, characterized by their high frequency and unpredictability, pose significant challenges to timely response and management, often resulting in road congestion and increased risk of traffic accidents. To address these issues, this p...

(This article belongs to the Section F: Engineering and Materials)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
2,952 Views
27 Pages

This paper investigates the distributed optimization problem (DOP) for fractional high-order nonstrict-feedback multiagent systems (MASs) where each agent is multiple-input–multiple-output (MIMO) dynamic and contains uncertain dynamics. Based o...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Fractional-Order Multiagent Systems: Theory and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,392 Views
20 Pages

13 June 2024

This paper investigates the problem of the adaptive neural network tracking control of nonlinear cyber–physical systems (CPSs) subject to unknown deception attacks with prescribed performance. The considered system is under the influence of unk...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Nonlinear Dynamics and Control: Challenges and Innovations)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,461 Views
17 Pages

3 March 2026

High-precision cooperative control of dual-arm manipulators faces significant challenges arising from complex dynamic coupling, parametric uncertainties, and external disturbances. Furthermore, in networked control scenarios, communication bandwidth...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Symmetry/Asymmetry and Autonomous Robotics)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
390 Views
25 Pages

26 June 2026

This study proposes an incremental neural network adaptive control algorithm based on composite learning for a two-degree-of-freedom (2-DOF) helicopter system characterised by dynamic event triggering and input saturation. Firstly, by integrating a c...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Deep Learning and Adaptive Control, 4th Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,274 Views
25 Pages

1 August 2025

This paper addresses the trajectory tracking control problem of underactuated ships in ocean engineering, which faces the dual challenges of tracking error time–performance regulation and robustness design due to the system’s underactuate...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Design and Analysis of Adaptive Identification and Control)
  • Article
  • Open Access
527 Views
38 Pages

To meet the requirement for high-precision dynamic positioning of fully actuated vessels under wave-frequency disturbances, and to achieve clock-synchronous triggering for system analysis, decision-making and reliable communication, this paper propos...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Research in Guidance, Navigation, and Control for Autonomous Surface Vehicle—2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
4,472 Views
26 Pages

Event-Triggered Adaptive Control for a Class of Nonlinear Systems with Dead-Zone Input

  • Congli Mei,
  • Dong Guo,
  • Gang Chen,
  • Jianping Cai and
  • Jianning Li

In this paper, the event-triggered control problem is investigated using backstepping techniques for nonlinear systems with dead-zone input. The external disturbance and unknown parameters are also considered in the controller’s design. It is w...

(This article belongs to the Section Systems & Control Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,102 Views
23 Pages

7 February 2023

In this paper, an event-triggered adaptive dynamic programming (ADP) method is proposed to deal with the H∞ problem with unknown dynamic and constrained input. Firstly, the H∞-constrained problem is regarded as the two-player zero-sum gam...

(This article belongs to the Section Robotics and Automation)

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