Global output feedback control for uncertain strict-feedback nonlinear systems: A logic-based switching event-triggered approach

Abstract

This paper addresses the global output-feedback stabilization for a class of uncertain nonlinear systems via a switching event-triggered approach. Typically, the system growth rates are allowed to be arbitrary unknown non-polynomial functions of system output. Note that such nonlinearities cannot be handled by generalizing the design rationales employed in polynomial rate cases. For this reason, an event-triggered mechanism together with a logic-based switching mechanism is proposed to determine not only when to sample but also when to switch the control parameter. With the help of the switching control parameter, an observer-based control scheme is developed to achieve global output-feedback stabilization. Particularly, the control parameter can be adaptively adjusted to a sufficiently large value, so the proposed control scheme has a stronger capability to deal with large uncertainties, inherent nonlinearities, and sampling errors of the system. For more efficient resource saving, an extended investigation is presented by constructing a dynamic event-triggered scheme. Finally, two simulation examples are given to illustrate the effectiveness of the switching event-triggered schemes.