IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol.64, No.1, 420-426, 2019
Stability Analysis of Event-Triggered Anytime Control With Multiple Control Laws
To deal with time-varying processor availability and lossy communication channels in embedded and networked control systems, one can employ an event-triggered sequence-based anytime control (E-SAC) algorithm. The main idea of E-SAC is, when computing resources and measurements are available, to compute a sequence of tentative control inputs and store them in a buffer for potential future use. State-dependent random-time drift (SRD) approach is often used to analyze and establish stability properties of such E-SAC algorithms. However, using SRD, the analysis quickly becomes combinatoric and hence difficult to extend to more sophisticated E-SAC. In this technical note, we develop a general model and a new stability analysis for E-SAC based on Markov jump systems. Using the new stability analysis, stochastic stability conditions of existing E-SAC are also recovered. In addition, the proposed technique systematically extends to a more sophisticated E-SAC scheme for which, until now, no analytical expression had been obtained.
Keywords:Anytime control;control with time-varying processor availability;event-triggered control algorithms;Markov jump systems (MJSs);networked control systems;stochastic stability