In this article, the issue of developing an adaptive event-triggered neural control for nonlinear uncertain system with input delay is investigated. The radial basis function neural networks (RBFNNs) are adopted to approximate the uncertain terms, where the time-varying approximation errors are considered into the approximation system. However, the RBFNNs' weight vector is extended, which may cause the computing burdens. To save network resource, the computing burden caused by the weight vector is handled with the developed adaptive control strategy. Furthermore, in order to compensate the effect of input delay, an auxiliary system is introduced into codesign. With the help of adaptive backstepping technique, an adaptive event-triggered control approach is established. Under the proposed control approach, the effect of input delay can be compensated effectively while the considered system suffered network resource constraint, and all signals in the close-loop system can be guarantee bounded. Finally, two simulation examples are given to verify the proposed control method's effectiveness.
K E Y W O R D Sadaptive control, event-triggered, input delay, neural networks, nonlinear systems
INTRODUCTIONActual control systems are always constituted by sensor, controller, and actuator through the shared communication network. 1-5 The network resource normally includes communication resource and computing resource. 4,5 In traditional control, the controller's output is kept transferring to actuator. 4 It may create redundant update signals that would result in the waste of the communication network. What's more, it may cause the congested network traffic when the control system suffering the network resource constraints. 6 Such issues have prompted event-triggered strategy's development.Because the event-triggered strategy has superiority in deciding which event occurred to transmit the control signal. 6,7 The network resource can be saved by reducing of the communication rate. 7 Thus, many researchers have placed great emphasis on the design of event-triggered strategy. Many research achievements have been published. [8][9][10][11] In Reference 8, the mixed event-triggered strategy was presented for nonlinear systems. In Reference 10, the improved event-triggered mechanism was presented by using an additional internal dynamic variable. The event-triggered system was analyzed [Correction added on 12 May 2020, after first online publication: Affiliations 1 and 2 and the first and second authors were interchanged and have since been corrected in this version.] Int J Robust Nonlinear Control. 2020;30:3801-3815. wileyonlinelibrary.com/journal/rnc © 2020 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 3801 3802 CHEN et al.through a small gain theorem tool in Reference 11. More event-triggered strategies were introduced to different control systems. [12][13][14][15][16] Noting the above research achievements show the effectiveness of event-triggered strategy in saving network resources. It is well known that nonlinear systems exist uncertain parts in r...