Distributed coordination control is the current trend in networked systems and finds prosperous applications across a variety of fields, such as smart grids and intelligent transportation systems. One fundamental issue in coordinating and controlling a large group of distributed and networked agents is the influence of intermittent interagent interactions caused by constrained communication resources. Event-triggered communication scheduling stands out as a promising enabler to strike a balance between the desired control performance and the satisfactory resource efficiency. What distinguishes dynamic event-triggered scheduling from traditional static event-triggered scheduling is that the triggering mechanism can be dynamically adjusted over time in accordance with both available system information and additional dynamic variables. This article provides an up-to-date overview of dynamic event-triggered distributed coordination control. The motivation of dynamic event-triggered scheduling is first introduced in the context of distributed coordination control. Then some techniques of dynamic event-triggered distributed coordination control are discussed in detail. Implementation and design issues are well addressed. Furthermore, this article exemplifies two applications of dynamic event-triggered distributed coordination control in the fields of microgrids and automated vehicles. Several challenges are suggested to direct the future research.

This paper studies the problem of adaptively adjusted event-triggering mechanism-based fault detection for a class of discrete-time networked control system (NCS) with applications to aircraft dynamics. By taking into account the fault occurrence detection progress and the fault occurrence probability, and introducing an adaptively adjusted event-triggering parameter, a novel event-triggering mechanism is proposed to achieve the efficient utilization of the communication network bandwidth. Both the sensor-to-control station and the control station-to-actuator network-induced delays are taken into account. The event-triggered sensor and the event-triggered control station are utilized simultaneously to establish new network-based closed-loop models for the NCS subject to faults. Based on the established models, the event-triggered simultaneous design of fault detection filter (FDF) and controller is presented. A new algorithm for handling the adaptively adjusted event-triggering parameter is proposed. Performance analysis verifies the effectiveness of the adaptively adjusted event-triggering mechanism, and the simultaneous design of FDF and controller.

This paper investigates the event-triggered predictive control (ETPC) problem for networked nonlinear systems with imperfect premise matching. Firstly, a model of networked nonlinear system is well constructed which has integrated the event-triggered communication scheme (ETCS) and the predictive control together, in which, a) an ETCS is introduced to alleviate the communication burden by reducing the number of transmitted packets; b) an fuzzy predictive controller is designed to predict future states and control signals between two successfully transmitted instants. Therefore, the data dropout induced by the networks can be actively compensated. Secondly, by using a common Lyapunov theory, a stability criterion and two stabilization criteria are deduced to ensure the asymptotical stability of the studied system and find the controller gains, respectively. Different from the traditional parallel distributed compensation (PDC) method, the synchronous premise variables between the T-S fuzzy system and the fuzzy event-triggered predictive controller (FETPC) are no longer needed again. Since the imperfect premise matching condition is well considered in the derivation of the main results, the design flexibility and low cost of the FETPC implementation can be expected. Finally, the validity of method proposed in this paper is demonstrated by a nonlinear mass-spring example.

This article is concerned with event-triggered dynamic positioning for a mass-switched unmanned marine vehicle (UMV) in network environments. First, a switched dynamic positioning system (DPS) model for a mass-switched marine vehicle is established. The switched DPS model takes into consideration changes in the marine vehicle's mass and the resultant switching of the marine vehicle's parameters. Second, for a mass-switched UMV controlled through a communication network, a novel weighted event-triggering communication scheme considering switching features is proposed. The weighted error data of multiple sampling instants are utilized to avoid a long-time nontriggering phenomenon. The consideration of switching features guarantees the current sampled data to be transmitted if a switch occurs between the last sampling instant and the current sampling instant. Then, under the event-triggering scheme, an asynchronously switched DPS model for the mass-switched UMV is established in network environments. Based on this model, a mode-dependent DPS controller and event generator co-design method are proposed to attenuate the disturbance induced by wind, waves, and ocean currents. The DPS performance analysis demonstrates the effectiveness of the proposed method.