Decentralized summation‐based triggering mechanism for Lipschitz nonlinear systems

In this paper, a decentralized event‐based triggering mechanism for a class of nonlinear control systems is studied. It is assumed that the measurement sensors are geographically distributed and so local event generator modules are employed. Then, a novel periodic triggering condition is proposed for each module, which can potentially reduce the information exchange between subsystems compared with traditional control approaches, while maintaining closed‐loop asymptotic stability. The triggering condition parameters are designed through a convex optimization problem with LMI constraints. Finally, simulations are carried out to illustrate the performance of the introduced scheme. Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.