%0 Journal Article
%T On a small-gain approach to distributed event-triggered control
%A Claudio De Persis
%A Rudolf Sailer
%A Fabian Wirth
%J Mathematics
%D 2010
%I arXiv
%X In this paper the problem of stabilizing large-scale systems by distributed controllers, where the controllers exchange information via a shared limited communication medium is addressed. Event-triggered sampling schemes are proposed, where each system decides when to transmit new information across the network based on the crossing of some error thresholds. Stability of the interconnected large-scale system is inferred by applying a generalized small-gain theorem. Two variations of the event-triggered controllers which prevent the occurrence of the Zeno phenomenon are also discussed.
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/1010.6148v2