Event-triggered predictive control for networked systems with communication delays compensation

This paper addresses the event-triggered predictive control problem for networked control systems (NCSs). First, we propose a discrete event-triggered transmission scheme on the sensor node by introducing a quadratic function. Then, based on the above scheme, a novel class of event-triggered predictive control algorithms on the controller node are designed for compensating for the communication delays actively and achieving the desired control performance while using less network resources. Two cases in terms of the communication delays are considered respectively. For the two cases, the closed-loop systems with the proposed event-triggered predictive control scheme for the analysis are established correspondingly. The co-design problems of the controller and event-triggering parameter are discussed by using the linear matrix inequality (LMI) approach and the (switching) Lyapunov functional method. Finally, a practical example is employed to demonstrate the effects of the proposed scheme.