Protocol‐based collaborative design for discrete‐time switched systems with sojourn probabilities

Summary This article focuses on the collaborative design of a class of discrete‐time switched systems with sojourn probabilities. For the purpose of preventing the data collision, the Try‐Once‐Discard (TOD) protocol is employed to govern the information transmission between sensors and the controller. Moreover, it is worth noting that the values of sojourn probabilities, which are not given ahead, have an effect on the system stability. As a consequence, a novel collaborative design framework is established, in which the sojourn probability and static output‐feedback controller are to be designed simultaneously. By considering the effect from the TOD protocol and using the Lyapunov function related to the mode and protocol, a sufficient condition is derived to guarantee the exponential mean square stability of the closed‐loop system with a prescribed lower bound on the decay rate. Then, the desired sojourn probabilities and controller gains dependent on the corresponding mode and protocol are obtained in terms of convex optimization method with equality constraints. Subsequently, an estimation approach is provided to estimate the decay rate and decay coefficient of the closed‐loop system. Finally, one numerical example is given to testify the effectiveness of the proposed design approach.