Evaluation of novel self-triggering method for optimisation of communication and control

Some of the critical issues in networked control systems are optimisation of control, communication, and computational costs, time-delays, and coupling of control and triggering-condition. To address the optimisation of communication and control, an approach has been recently reported by Gommans et al. (2014), based on self-triggered (ST) linear quadratic (LQ) control. However, the optimisation of computational cost, coupling, and time-delays were not considered. With this motivation, a novel ST LQ methodology is proposed in this study. The features, merits, and demerits of this approach are compared against Gommans et al. (2014) and simulation results are presented for three case studies.