Event-Triggered Neural Network Control for Uncertain Nonlinear Systems Without State Observer

Abstract

A robust approximation-based event-triggered control method is presented for single input single output (SISO) nonlinear continuous-time systems with unmeasurable states and external disturbance. In the whole system, just one neural network (NN) is designed to approximate the unknown part in the controller, and output errors are directly used to construct the system controller and event-triggered mechanism to relieve the burden of system communication. The controller with a simple structure is easier to be realized in practical engineering. The system control signals and adaptive parameters are updated only if the event trigger condition is met, and this way further reduces the waste of network resources caused by frequent system sampling. The application of stability theory of Lyapunov proves that the weight estimation of the NN and tracking errors are ultimate and uniform boundedness, and the efficacy of the proposed scheme is verified with numerical results on a robot.