Timing is everything: Analysis and synthesis of traffic patterns in event-triggered control

Event-triggered control (ETC) and self-triggered control (STC) are sample-and-hold control paradigms in which sensor data is only updated to the controller when necessary, often aperiodically, in contrast to the well-established periodic sampling paradigm. In ETC, a state-dependent event triggers a transmission, while in STC the controller...

Scalable Traffic Models for Scheduling of Linear Periodic Event-Triggered Controllers

This paper addresses the problem of modeling and scheduling the transmissions generated by multiple event-triggered control (ETC) loops sharing a network. We present a method to build a finite-state similar model of the traffic generated by periodic ETC (PETC), which by construction mitigates the combinatorial explosion that is typical of...