Discrete-time event-triggered H-infinity stabilization for networked cascade control systems with uncertain delay

Abstract This paper is concerned with the problem of discrete-time event-triggered H∞ control for networked cascade control systems (NCCSs) with time-varying network-induced delay. First of all, an event-triggered scheme is introduced to this system for reducing the unnecessary waste of limited network bandwidth resources. Considering the effect of time-varying delay, a new mathematical model for this system is constructed. In this paper, based on the model and Lyapunov functional method, the co-design method of event-triggered parameter, state feedback primary controller and secondary controller with H∞ performance is derived via linear matrix inequality technique. To illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed method, a simulation example considering a main steam temperature cascade control system is given. The proposed method emphasizes the application in the corresponding industrial control systems, it can be found that this method is superior to the one in some existing references, and the provided example demonstrates the effectiveness of the co-design method in the networked cascade control systems with event-triggered scheme.