Dynamic Event-Triggered Tracking Control for a Class of p-Normal Nonlinear Systems

This paper investigates the problem of dynamic event-triggered output feedback tracking control for a class of p-normal nonlinear systems with unknown growth rate. To cope with the unknown growth rate imposed on the system nonlinearities, a dynamic gain technique is introduced and a constructive coordinate transformation is given. On the other hand, an event-triggered strategy combining with the dynamic gain is proposed such that the triggering threshold can be adjusted in an adaptive manner. With the help of the proposed event-triggered strategy, a dynamic event-based output feedback controller is developed to ensure that all signals of the closed-loop system are bounded while the tracking error converges to a small neighborhood of the origin. Moreover, it is proved that the Zeno behavior is excluded in the presence of nonsmooth controller. Two examples, including an induction heater circuit system and a numerical example, are provided to indicate the effectiveness of the proposed control method.