Mixed time/event-triggered distributed predictive control over wired-wireless networks

Communicating via mixed wired-wireless connections is the development trend for large-scale distributed control systems. In this communication environment, due to the limited wireless resources, the communication patterns of subsystems have changed fundamentally, and the design of time-triggered and event-triggered distributed controllers should be taken into account simultaneously. The objective of this paper is to investigate mixed time/event-triggered dual-mode distributed predictive control (DPC) for constrained large-scale linear systems subject to bounded disturbances. Considering the effects of two different communication modes and introducing a prediction error between the current actual state and predicted state, the event-triggering condition is derived for each event-triggered subsystem. Based on this, a mixed time/event-triggered dual-mode DPC algorithm is proposed in view of the asynchronous coordination among subsystems. Furthermore, the sufficient conditions to ensure the recursive feasibility and closed-loop stability of mixed triggered DPC are developed. Finally, a multi-vehicle control system is provided to verify the effectiveness of the proposed approach.