Event-triggered robust adaptive control for uncertain nonlinear systems preceded by actuator dead-zone

It is both theoretically and practically important to investigate the problem of event-triggered adaptive tracking control for a class of uncertain nonlinear systems subject to actuator dead-zone, which aims at reducing communication rate and compensating actuator nonlinearity simultaneously. In this paper, to handle such a problem, an event-trigger based adaptive compensation scheme is proposed for the system preceded by actuator dead-zone. The challenges of this work can be roughly classified into two categories: how to compensate the nonsmooth dead-zone nonlinearity and how to eliminate the quantization signal effects caused by event-triggered strategy. To resolve the first challenge, a new decomposition of dead-zone mathematical model is employed so that dead-zone nonlinearity can be successively compensated by using robust approach. In addition, an adaptive controller and its triggering event are co-designed based on the relative threshold strategy, such that an asymptotic tracking performance can be ensured. The proposed scheme is proved to guarantee the globally bounded of all closed-loop signals and the asymptotic convergence performance of tracking error toward zero. The simulation results illustrate the effectiveness of our proposed control scheme.