ABSTRACT
This chapter presents an approach to distributed control that combines continuous and eventbased state feedback and aims at the suppression of the disturbance propagation through interconnected systems. It presents a novel method for the implementation of a distributed state-feedback law in an event-based manner. The chapter explores a new approach to the distributed event-based control of interconnected linear systems. It describes a model that reflects the internal structure of the overall plant in more detail. The chapter discusses the event-based state-feedback approach to the distributed event-based control of physically interconnected systems. It also explores the results of an experiment that investigates the practical application of the distributed event-based state feedback to a thermofluid process. The chapter deals with a triggering mechanism that distinguishes between two kinds of events that lead to either the transmission of local state information or the request of information from neighboring subsystems.
