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With the gradual advancement of a novel idea of the distributed control of the multiagent systems, an event-triggered control protocol has received significant research attention, especially in designing the controller for the nonlinear…
Thermostatically controlled loads (TCLs) can provide ancillary services to the power network by aiding existing frequency control mechanisms. TCLs are, however, characterized by an intrinsic limit cycle behavior which raises the risk that…
An event-triggered control technique for consensus of multi-agent systems with general linear dynamics is presented. This paper extends previous work to consider agents that are connected using directed graphs. Additionally, the approach…
This letter proposes discrete changes in the power output of emerging power technologies (EPT) for controlling oscillations and frequency excursions. For the former, a new perspective is proposed that connects oscillations with the…
Different from most transactive control studies only focusing on economic aspect, this paper develops a novel network-constrained transactive control (NTC) framework that can address both economic and secure issues for a…
We present a prescriptive framework for the event-triggered control of nonlinear systems. Rather than closing the loop periodically, as traditionally done in digital control, in event-triggered implementations the loop is closed according…
Event-based methods carefully select when to transmit information to enable high-performance control and estimation over resource-constrained communication networks. However, they come at a cost. For instance, event-based communication…
Unnecessary communication and computation in the periodic execution of control tasks lead to over-provisioning in hardware design (or underexploitation in hardware utilization) in control applications, such as networked control systems. To…
For an autonomous linear time-invariant (LTI) system, a distributed observer with time-triggered periodic observations and event-triggered communication is proposed to estimate the state of the system. It is shown that the sampling period…
Consider a network of multiple independent stochastic linear systems where, for each system, a scheduler collocated with the sensors arbitrates data transmissions to a corresponding remote controller through a shared contention-based…
Efficient traffic signal control (TSC) has been one of the most useful ways for reducing urban road congestion. Key to the challenge of TSC includes 1) the essential of real-time signal decision, 2) the complexity in traffic dynamics, and…
This paper studies an online algorithm for an energy harvesting transmitter, where the transmission (completion) time is considered as the system performance. Unlike the existing online algorithms which more or less require the knowledge on…
The paper proposes a distributed eventtriggered consensus approach for linear multi-agent systems with guarantees over rate of convergence, resilience to control gain uncertainties, and Pareto optimality of design parameters, namely, the…
We present ETCetera, a Python library developed for the analysis and synthesis of the sampling behaviour of event triggered control (ETC) systems. In particular, the tool constructs abstractions of the sampling behaviour of given ETC…
This paper mainly investigates consensus problem with pull-based event-triggered feedback control. For each agent, the diffusion coupling feedbacks are based on the states of its in-neighbors at its latest triggering time and the next…
A predictive triggering (PT) framework for the distributed control of resource constrained multi-agent systems is proposed. By predicting future communication demands and deriving a probabilistic priority measure, the PT framework is able…
We introduce a novel event-trigger threshold (ETT) regulation mechanism based on the quantitative semantics of propositional logic (PL). We exploit the expressiveness of the PL vocabulary to deliver a precise and flexible specification of…
This paper deals with congestion control in a software defined network (SDN) setting. Presently, explicit router schemes, such as Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN), work in conjunction with the TCP protocol to handle congestion in a…
Self-triggered control (STC) is a resource efficient approach to determine sampling instants for Networked Control Systems. At each sampling instant, an STC mechanism determines not only the control inputs but also the next sampling…
This paper studies integral-type event-triggered model predictive control (MPC) of continuous-time nonlinear systems. An integral-type event-triggered mechanism is proposed by incorporating the integral of errors between the actual and…