Event-Triggered Adaptive Neural Network Control for Nonstrict-Feedback Nonlinear Time-Delay Systems With Unknown Control Directions

In this article, the event-triggered-based adaptive neural network control problem is studied for a class of nonlinear time-delay systems with nonstrict-feedback structures and unknown control directions. First, a compensation system is introduced to handle the input delay and an observer is also designed to estimate the unmeasurable states. Then, by employing the neural networks and the variable separation approach, the adaptive backstepping method is applied to control the nonlinear systems with nonstrict-feedback structures. By codesigning the adaptive controller and the triggering mechanism, the input-to-state stability (ISS) assumption with respect to the measurement error is removed. Finally, it is shown that the proposed event-triggered adaptive controller can ensure the semiglobal boundedness of all the states in the closed-loop systems.