Event-Triggered State-Feedback Control for Continuous-Time Plants Subject to Input Saturation

This paper proposes a method to design event-triggered state-feedback controllers for continuous-time LTI plants subject to input saturation. Using Lyapunov theory techniques, LMI-based conditions are derived to guarantee regional (or global, when possible) asymptotic stability of the origin. Optimization problems are proposed as means to tune the trigger parameters aiming at reducing the sampling activity. Co-design of the trigger function and the control law is also addressed, as well as the extension of the results to a class of uncertain systems. Simulations illustrate the application of the methods.