Event-based control with communication delays and packet losses

Event-based control aims at reducing the information exchange over the communication network in feedback-control systems. This article extends a state-feedback approach to event-based control to cope with communication delays and packet losses in the feedback link. The main result is a bound for the maximum tolerable communication delay, which guarantees that the event-based state-feedback loop is stable in the sense that its state remains in a bounded surrounding of the state of a continuous-time state-feedback loop. This result is extended to communication links with additional packet losses. Simulation studies and experimental results illustrate the performance of the event-based control loop.