Event-Triggered Sliding Mode Control Strategies for Positioning Systems: An Experimental Assessment

The paper presents experimental assessments of different event-triggered sliding mode control strategies. The main purpose of the event-triggered control approach is to reduce the system utilization and relax the scheduling of the tasks on real-time systems. Event triggering is a real-time implementation technique, where the execution of the controller is not fixed to a preselected sampling time. The stability and performance of the controlled system need to be preserved with regard to the sporadic nature of the controller update. Sliding mode controllers are employed in the context of event-triggering to achieve robustness with respect to matched perturbations. Three different sliding mode event-triggered strategies are evaluated on the real-time positioning system. All the obtained experimental results are compared to a time-triggered version. The results confirm that event-triggering sliding mode control is well suited and reduce the system use drastically.