Event-Triggered Composite Nonlinear Control for Saturated System

This paper investigates the composite nonlinear feedback (CNF) control design with event-triggered strategy for input-saturating system, which is used to solve the tracking problem. The CNF control is composed of linear control law and nonlinear control law without any switching elements. The former can decrease the rise-time and the role of the latter is to reduce the overshoot caused by the linear part. Due to the event-triggered mechanism, the communication resources can be saved. Moreover, the minimum time interval of event-triggering is explicitly given to avoid Zeno behavior. Finally, the effectiveness of the proposed method is shown by an application example of lighter aircraft.