Self-triggered control, a well-documented technique for reducing the communication overhead while ensuring desired system performance, is gaining increasing popularity. However, existing methods for self-triggered control require explicit system models that are assumed perfectly known a priori. An end-to-end control paradigm known as data-driven control learns control laws directly from data, and offers a competing alternative to the routine system identification-then-control method. In this context, the present paper puts forth data-driven self-triggered control schemes for unknown linear systems using data collected offline. Specifically, for output feedback control systems, a datadriven model predictive control (MPC) scheme is proposed, which computes a sequence of control inputs while generating a predicted system trajectory. A data-driven self-triggering law is designed using the predicted trajectory, to determine the next triggering time once a new measurement becomes available. For state feedback control systems, instead of capitalizing on MPC to predict the trajectory, a data-fitting problem using the precollected input-state data is solved, whose solution is employed to construct the self-triggering mechanism. Both feasibility and stability are established for the proposed self-triggered controllers, which are validated using numerical examples.Index terms-Data-driven control, data-driven MPC, selftriggered control, predicted control.
I. INTRODUCTIONThanks to recent advances in data acquisition and computing technologies, data-driven control has attracted considerable attention in the past years. Designing control laws directly from data without resorting to any system identification step, offers an appealing alternative to the traditional model-based control paradigm [1], [2]. This is because in real-world applications, it is always difficult or even impossible to acquire an accurate system model [3]- [5]. Indeed, a number of publications are devoted to studying data-driven control. These were mainly inspired by the celebrated Fundamental Lemma proposed in [6], which lays the theoretical foundation for data-driven control. Several control problems have been addressed under the new