Adaptive event-triggered control for a class of nonlinear systems with periodic disturbances

This paper investigates the adaptive event-triggered control problem for a class of nonlinear systems subject to periodic disturbances. To reduce the communication burden, a reliable relative threshold strategy is proposed. Fourier series expansion and radial basis function neural network are combined into a function approximator to model suitable time-varying disturbed function of known periods in strict-feedback systems. By combining the Lyapunov stability theory and the backstepping technique, the proposed adaptive control approach ensures that all the signals in the closed-loop system are bounded, and the tracking error can be regulated to a compact set around zero in finite time. Finally, simulation results are presented to verify the effectiveness of the theoretical results.