Special Issue on Event-Triggered Control and Filtering of Distributed Networked Systems

With the rapid development and widespread utilization of advanced communication, sensing, and computation technologies, increasing attention has been paid to develop new techniques of control and filtering for distributed networked systems. Note that the utilization of communication networks can improve efficiency, flexibility, and scalability in designing networked controllers and filters. However, communication networks usually suffer from communication resource constraints with detrimental consequences, such as long latency, increased packet dropout, reduced throughput, and so on. In order to address the challenges caused by limited communication resources, an event-triggered communication paradigm is an effective and promising technique that can significantly reduce computation/communication utilization while maintaining the desired estimation and the control performance. As a result, a variety of event-triggered control and filtering techniques for distributed networked systems have been proposed.