Discrete-Time Event-Triggered Extremum Seeking

Abstract

This paper proposes a discrete-time event-triggered extremum seeking control scheme for real-time optimization of nonlinear systems. Unlike conventional discrete-time implementations relying on periodic updates, the proposed approach updates the control input only when a state-dependent triggering condition is satisfied, reducing unnecessary actuation and communication. The resulting closed-loop system combines extremum seeking with an event-triggering mechanism that adaptively determines the input update instants. Using discrete-time averaging and Lyapunov analysis, we establish practical convergence of the trajectories to a neighborhood of the unknown extremum point and show exponential stability of the associated average dynamics. The proposed method preserves the optimization capability of classical extremum seeking while significantly reducing the number of input updates. Simulation results illustrate the effectiveness of the approach for resource-aware real-time optimization.