Event-triggered sliding mode control for a class of nonlinear systems

ABSTRACT

Event-triggering strategy is one of the real-time control implementation techniques which aims at achieving minimum resource utilisation while ensuring the satisfactory performance of the closed-loop system. In this paper, we address the problem of robust stabilisation for a class of nonlinear systems subject to external disturbances using sliding mode control (SMC) by event-triggering scheme. An event-triggering scheme is developed for SMC to ensure the sliding trajectory remains confined in the vicinity of sliding manifold. The event-triggered SMC brings the sliding mode in the system and thus the steady-state trajectories of the system also remain bounded within a predesigned region in the presence of disturbances. The design of event parameters is also given considering the practical constraints on control execution. We show that the next triggering instant is larger than its immediate past triggering instant by a given positive constant. The analysis is also presented with taking delay into account in the control updates. An upper bound for delay is calculated to ensure stability of the system. It is shown that with delay steady-state bound of the system is increased than that of the case without delay. However, the system trajectories remain bounded in the case of delay, so stability is ensured. The performance of this event-triggered SMC is demonstrated through a numerical simulation.     

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