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Improved Nonfragile Sampled-Data Event-Triggered Control for the Exponential Synchronization of Delayed Complex Dynamical Networks

  • Can Zhao,
  • Jinde Cao,
  • Kaibo Shi,
  • Yiqian Tang and ,
  • Shouming Zhong and
  • Fawaz E. Alsaadi
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

26 September 2022

The exponential synchronization of complex dynamical networks (CDNs) under improved nonfragile sampled-data event-triggered control (INFSDETC) is investigated in this study. A meaningful yet challenging issue is solved, namely, it can adjust the trig...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Well-Posedness, Dynamics, and Control of Nonlinear Differential System with Initial-Boundary Value)
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  • Open Access
818 Views
15 Pages

26 May 2025

This paper is concerned with the event-based synchronization control for chaotic neural networks by using a refined discontinuous trigger scheme. To get rid of the Zeno phenomenon and decrease the triggering times, a refined discontinuous event-trigg...

(This article belongs to the Section Mathematical Analysis)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
1,549 Views
20 Pages

This paper proposes a dynamic event-triggered adaptive backstepping control for underactuated autonomous underwater vehicle systems (AUVs) with input saturation. The proposed method ensures the system’s stability by introducing a new auxiliary...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,481 Views
21 Pages

Event-Triggered Control of Grid-Connected Inverters Based on LPV Model Approach

  • Wensheng Luo,
  • Zhiwei Zhang,
  • Zejian Shu,
  • Haibin Li and
  • Jianwen Zhang

5 September 2025

This study aims to develop an event-triggered control strategy of grid-connected inverters, based on the linear parameter-varying (LPV) modeling approach. Regarding the changes in grid voltage, filter capacitance and inductance, and random electromag...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Control and Optimization of Power Converters)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,126 Views
14 Pages

28 July 2022

Considering the external disturbances, in this paper, the quasi-consensus of multiagent systems is studied via event-triggered impulsive control. By designing a novel event-triggered mechanism (ETM), sufficient conditions to realize leader-following...

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  • Open Access
766 Views
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29 October 2025

This paper addresses periodic event-triggered output-feedback control (PETOFC) and event-triggered state-feedback control (ETSFC) for polynomial systems modeled by a linear-like representation with state-dependent coefficients. Periodic event-trigger...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
3,682 Views
15 Pages

21 January 2022

This paper is concerned with the problem of event-triggered state estimation for a class of fractional-order neural networks. An event-triggering strategy is proposed to reduce the transmission frequency of the output measurement signals with guarant...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Well-Posedness, Dynamics, and Control of Nonlinear Differential System with Initial-Boundary Value)
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  • Open Access
644 Views
24 Pages

To address the challenge of limited communication resources in microgrid economic dispatch, this paper proposes an improved dynamic event-triggered mechanism built upon a distributed event-triggered consensus algorithm. Firstly, a dynamic variable is...

(This article belongs to the Topic Advanced Strategies for Smart Grid Reliability and Energy Optimization)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,780 Views
21 Pages

15 February 2022

This paper deals with a static/dynamic event-triggered asynchronous filter of nonlinear switched positive systems with output quantization. The nonlinear function is located in a sector. Both static and dynamic event-triggering conditions are establi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Dynamical System and Stochastic Analysis)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,821 Views
21 Pages

30 November 2020

This paper studies the problem of DoS attack defense based on static observer-based event-triggered predictive control in networked control systems (NCSs). First, under the conditions of limited network bandwidth resources and the incomplete observab...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensor Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,912 Views
16 Pages

This paper focuses on the event-triggered synchronization of coupled neural networks with reaction–diffusion terms. At first, an effective event-triggered controller was designed based on time sampling. It is worth noting that the data of the c...

(This article belongs to the Section C2: Dynamical Systems)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,521 Views
19 Pages

24 November 2024

This paper studies the exponential stability in the mean square of the stochastic complex networks with time-varying coupling under an intermittent dynamic event-triggered control. A dynamic term and an exponential function are introduced into the ev...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligent Sensing, Control and Actuation in Networked Systems)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
962 Views
16 Pages

12 December 2025

This paper focuses on designing an event-triggered dynamic output feedback controller for discrete-time linear systems subject to actuator and sensor constraints as well as external disturbances. A dynamic event-triggered condition with two generaliz...

(This article belongs to the Section Control Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
379 Views
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Self-Learning Control to Attitude Stabilization with Integral Event-Triggered Mechanism

  • Nu Yang,
  • Tianle Yin,
  • Zhijian He,
  • Quan Li and ,
  • Ming-Zhe Dai and
  • Chengxi Zhang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

8 August 2026

Conventional event-triggered attitude controllers effectively reduce communication frequency but usually employ a zero-order-hold strategy between consecutive triggering instants, resulting in abrupt control torque variations that may degrade actuato...

(This article belongs to the Section A: Computer Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,951 Views
14 Pages

27 October 2022

This paper proposes an event-triggered model-free adaptive platoon control (MFAPC) solution for non-linear vehicle systems under denial-of-service (DoS) attacks. First, the non-linear vehicle system is transformed into an equivalent linear data model...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Dynamic Modeling and Simulation for Control Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,119 Views
24 Pages

Three-Dimensional Event-Triggered Predefined-Time Cooperative Guidance Law

  • Dingye Zhang,
  • Hang Yu,
  • Keren Dai,
  • Wenjun Yi and ,
  • He Zhang,
  • Jun Guan and
  • Shusen Yuan
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

2 December 2024

To address the problem of multiple missiles attacking a maneuvering target simultaneously in three-dimensional space, we propose a new predefined-time cooperative guidance law based on an event-triggered mechanism. The settling time of the system sta...

(This article belongs to the Section Aeronautics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,906 Views
16 Pages

Event-Triggered Consensus Control of Nonlinear Strict Feedback Multi-Agent Systems

  • Jiaojiao Zhuang,
  • Zhenxing Li,
  • Zongxiang Hou and
  • Chengdong Yang

In this paper, we investigate the event-triggered consensus problems of nonlinear strict feedback MASs under directed graph. Based on the high-gain control technique, we firstly give a state-based event-triggered consensus algorithm and prove that Ze...

(This article belongs to the Topic Complex Systems and Network Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,353 Views
14 Pages

6 July 2022

This paper presents a Sigmoid-like event-triggered scheme (Sigmoid-like ETS) for security cruise control systems (CCSs) under stochastic false data injection (FDI) attacks. In order to improve the sensitivity of the ETS, a Sigmoid-like function is fi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Nonlinear and Stochastic System Control)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,559 Views
13 Pages

Periodic Event-Triggered Estimation for Networked Control Systems

  • Shitong Cui,
  • Le Liu,
  • Wei Xing and
  • Xudong Zhao

10 September 2021

This paper considers the problem of remote state estimation in a linear discrete invariant system, where a smart sensor is utilized to measure the system state and generate a local estimate. The communication depends on an event scheduler in the smar...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue 10th Anniversary of Electronics: New Advances in Systems and Control Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,653 Views
15 Pages

17 March 2023

This paper studies the intra/inter-layer synchronization and quasi-synchronization in two-layer coupled networks via event-triggered control, in which different layers have mutually independent topologies. First, based on Lyapunov stability theory an...

(This article belongs to the Topic Complex Systems and Network Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,202 Views
17 Pages

7 January 2025

Decreasing the position error and control torque is important for the coordinate control of a modular unmanned system with less communication burden between the sensor and the actuator. Therefore, this paper proposes event-trigger reinforcement learn...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Smart Sensing and Control for Autonomous Intelligent Unmanned Systems)
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  • Open Access
24 Citations
4,085 Views
13 Pages

29 March 2019

In this paper, a distributed event-triggered control strategy is proposed to investigate a flocking problem in a multi-agent system with Lipschitz nonlinear dynamics, where triggering conditions are proposed to determine the instants to update the co...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Multi-Agent Systems 2020)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,059 Views
19 Pages

3 April 2024

This article studies an event-triggered fixed-time trajectory tracking control problem of an n-joint manipulator system. Firstly, a fixed-time disturbance observer is proposed to reconstruct the total disturbance composed of external disturbances and...

(This article belongs to the Section F: Engineering and Materials)
  • Article
  • Open Access
681 Views
13 Pages

25 November 2025

Recently, the neural network control has been widely used in the field of wastewater treatment process (WWTP). However, most neural network (NN) control methods are time-driven, with a large number of transmissions and a large amount of neural networ...

(This article belongs to the Section Control Systems)
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  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,900 Views
19 Pages

7 July 2021

The distributed attitude synchronization control problem for spacecraft formation flying subject to limited energy and computational resources is addressed based on event-triggered mechanism. Firstly, a distributed event-driven controller is designed...

(This article belongs to the Section Aerospace Science and Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
984 Views
17 Pages

7 April 2026

This study carries out the research on event-triggered output feedback control tailored for discrete-time switched linear systems. A dynamic event-triggered mechanism (DETM) is utilized to mitigate the triggering frequency. To ensure stability and co...

(This article belongs to the Collection Advances in Automation and Robotics)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,067 Views
16 Pages

26 August 2023

This paper proposes an event-triggered state estimation method for parameter-uncertain systems with a binary encoding transmission scheme. Firstly, a binary encoding transmission scheme is introduced between the state estimator and the system to impr...

(This article belongs to the Topic Nonlinear Phenomena, Chaos, Control and Applications to Engineering and Science and Experimental Aspects of Complex Systems)
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  • Open Access
570 Views
25 Pages

This paper addresses the tracking control problem for a class of uncertain strict-feedback nonlinear systems with input delay under communication constraints. The main difficulty is that the input delay degrades tracking performance, while full-state...

(This article belongs to the Section Systems & Control Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
862 Views
21 Pages

16 December 2025

In this article, the fixed-time, quasi-consensus control problem for heterogeneous multi-agent systems (HMASs) under denial-of-service (DoS) attacks is investigated. Unlike most previous studies in this area, which focus on periodic (or single-type)...

(This article belongs to the Section E2: Control Theory and Mechanics)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,124 Views
21 Pages

19 September 2025

This paper investigates the synchronization problem of singularly perturbed complex networks with time delays, in which a novel event-triggered delayed impulsive control strategy is developed. To conserve limited communication bandwidth, a dynamic ev...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Switched Systems and Control Theory: Theory and Application)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,233 Views
18 Pages

9 January 2026

In this study, an adaptive event-driven coordination paradigm is proposed for achieving consensus in nonlinear multi-agent systems (MASs) over directed networks. First, a newly dynamic event-triggered mechanism with single-point historical informatio...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Analysis and Applications of Control Systems Theory)
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  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,572 Views
12 Pages

A Novel Dynamic Event-Triggered Mechanism for Distributed Secondary Control in Islanded AC Microgrids

  • Boyang Huang,
  • Yong Xiao,
  • Xin Jin,
  • Junhao Feng and ,
  • Xin Li and
  • Li Ding
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

20 September 2022

In this paper, the frequency/voltage restoration and active power sharing problems of islanded AC microgrids are studied. A novel distributed dynamic event-triggered secondary control scheme is proposed to reduce the communication burden. The continu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Power System Dynamics and Renewable Energy Integration)
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  • 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
32 Citations
5,013 Views
20 Pages

Event-Trigger-Based Finite-Time Privacy-Preserving Formation Control for Multi-UAV System

  • Jiangfeng Yue,
  • Kaiyu Qin,
  • Mengji Shi,
  • Bing Jiang and ,
  • Weihao Li and
  • Lei Shi
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

28 March 2023

Privacy-preserving has been crucial technique of multi-UAV systems, including cooperative detection, cooperative penetration and strike. Unprocessed interactive information poses a serious privacy threat to UAV swarm collaborative tasks. Considering...

(This article belongs to the Section Drone Communications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,835 Views
15 Pages

20 November 2019

This paper investigates a circle formation control problem for multi-agent systems with directed topologies via pull-based distributed event-triggered control principles. Firstly, for scenarios of continuous communication, a pull-based distributed ev...

(This article belongs to the Collection Advances in Automation and Robotics)
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  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,195 Views
26 Pages

24 January 2024

This paper begins by exploring the challenge of event-triggered state estimations in nonlinear systems, grappling with packet dropout and correlated noise. A communication mechanism is introduced that determines whether to transmit measurement values...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensor Networks)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,743 Views
23 Pages

14 June 2018

This paper deals with the problem of signal source localization using a group of autonomous robots by designing and analyzing a decision-control approach with an event-triggered communication scheme. The proposed decision-control approach includes tw...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Swarm Robotics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
5,548 Views
26 Pages

Leader-Following Consensus and Formation Control of VTOL-UAVs with Event-Triggered Communications

  • J. Fermi Guerrero-Castellanos,
  • Argel Vega-Alonzo,
  • Sylvain Durand,
  • Nicolas Marchand and ,
  • Victor R. Gonzalez-Diaz,
  • Josefina Castañeda-Camacho and
  • W. Fermin Guerrero-Sánchez
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

12 December 2019

This article presents the design and implementation of an event-triggered control approach, applied to the leader-following consensus and formation of a group of autonomous micro-aircraft with capabilities of vertical take-off and landing (VTOL-UAVs)...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mobile Robot Navigation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,811 Views
15 Pages

20 April 2022

The time-sampling control strategy has communication discontinuities in the control of multiple AUVs (autonomous underwater vehicles). To overcome this problem, a distributed event-triggered communication mechanism is proposed to make each AUV commun...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Biologically Inspired Computing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
371 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
12 Citations
4,729 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
4 Citations
3,098 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)
  • Article
  • Open Access
753 Views
23 Pages

Research on Multi-Agent Event-Triggered Control Algorithms for Power Systems

  • Yanming Chen,
  • Qiming Sun,
  • Ying Zhang and
  • Chengxuan Li

27 May 2026

Multi-agent systems are widely used in modern power systems, but they face challenges such as low data utilization, stringent triggering conditions, and poor environmental adaptability. This study proposes a multi-agent event-triggered control method...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,860 Views
16 Pages

26 September 2024

This paper investigates the problem of fixed-time event-triggered consensus control for a class of multi-agent systems with disturbed and non-linear dynamics. A fixed-time consensus protocol based on an event-triggered strategy is proposed, which can...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advance in Control Theory and Optimization)
  • Article
  • Open Access
220 Views
18 Pages

10 October 2026

This paper considers the stable tracking problem of high-speed train control systems based on event-triggered control. With the aid of external auxiliary dynamics and the integral signal of the controlled system state, an integral event-triggering co...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Integrated Intelligent Vehicle Dynamics and Control—2nd Edition)
  • Communication
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,212 Views
17 Pages

10 February 2021

This paper is concerned with the state and fault estimation issue for nonlinear systems with sensor saturations and fault signals. For the sake of avoiding the communication burden, an event-triggering protocol is utilized to govern the transmission...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sensor Fusion and Signal Processing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,574 Views
16 Pages

17 January 2022

Time-delay is an inevitable factor in practice, which may affect the performance of optimal control. In this paper, the event-triggered impulsive optimal control for linear continuous-time dynamic systems is studied. The event-triggered impulsive opt...

(This article belongs to the Section C2: Dynamical Systems)
  • 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
1 Citations
534 Views
16 Pages

In this paper, a class of distributed event-triggered (ET) control strategy is proposed to address the average consensus problem for multi-agent systems (MAS). Compared with the existing ET control methods with fixed connected communication links, un...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,582 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)

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