Session D: Automatic Control, IT and Artificial Intelligence

Event-triggered ADP for asymptotic output regulation of unknown linear systems

Ljubisa Dubonjic¹, João Paulo Zomer Machado², Dragan Prsic¹, Vladimir Stojanovic¹*, Xiangpeng Xie³
1 University of Kragujevac, Faculty of Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Kraljevo, Serbia
2 Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Dept. of Automation and Systems Engineering, 88040-970 Florianópolis, SC, Brazil
3 Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, School of Internet of Things, Nanjing 210023, China
Corresponding author: Vladimir Stojanovic · vladostojanovic@mts.rs

Abstract

The deployment of learning-based controllers in modern networked cyber-physical systems is constrained by bandwidth limitations, partial state observability, and parametric uncertainties. Traditional adaptive dynamic programming (ADP) relies on full-state feedback and periodic sampling, inducing network congestion and steady-state tracking errors. This paper develops a fully data-driven dynamic event-triggered output regulation scheme operating on measurable input-output streams. By integrating a projection-safeguarded value iteration algorithm with an internally evolving dynamic threshold variable, we guarantee asymptotic convergence of the sampling error without requiring an admissible initial stabilizing policy or explicit system identification. Simulations on a third-order uncertain plant demonstrate a 54.0% reduction in control transmissions and an 8.2% suboptimality bound relative to the model-based LQR baseline, with reconstruction error consistently decaying below . The framework provides a computationally efficient, theoretically rigorous architecture for resource-constrained cyber-physical networks.

Keywords

Adaptive dynamic programmingDynamic event-triggered controlData-driven output feedbackValue iterationOptimal output regulationNetworked control systems

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Recommended citation · Engineering TODAY style
L. Dubonjic, J. P. Z. Machado, D. Prsic, V. Stojanovic, and X. Xie, “Event-triggered ADP for asymptotic output regulation of unknown linear systems”, Proceedings of the XII International Triennial Conference Engineering TODAY (ET 2026), Vrnjačka Banja (Serbia), pp. D23–D30, https://doi.org/10.46793/ET26.D03D, (2026)