Event-based control is a new control method that closes the feedback loop only if an event indicates that the control error exceeds a tolerable bound and triggers a data transmission from the sensors to the controllers and the actuators. It is currently being developed as an important means for reducing the load of the digital communication networks that are used to implement feedback control. This paper explains the main ideas of event-based control, surveys analysis and design methods and shows experimental results to evaluate the effectiveness of this control method. It furthermore shows which new phenomena occur in multi-loop systems with several event generators, controllers and control input generators.

Bio: Jan Lunze obtained the diploma, the PhD and the Dr.Sc. degree (Habilitation) in Automatic Control from the Technical University Ilmenau in 1974, 1980 or 1983, respectively. Between 1992 and 2001 he was Professor of Control Engineering at the Technical University Hamburg-Harburg. Now he is Professor of Automatic Control and head of the Institute of Automation and Computer Control at the Ruhr-University Bochum where he teaches system and control theory. Since 2008, he is an ordinary member of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts.

Professor Lunze's research interests are in networked control systems, hybrid dynamical systems, discrete-event systems, and fault-tolerant control with applications in the process industry and the automotive industry. He has been the coordinator of a priority program of the German Research Foundation on Control Theory of Digitally Networked Dynamic Systems.

He is author and co-author of numerous research papers and has written several books including Robust Multivariable Feedback Control (Prentice-Hall 1988), Feedback Control of Large-Scale Systems (Prentice-Hall 1992), Diagnosis and Fault-Tolerant Control (Springer 2015, 3rd ed.), and several textbooks about control, discrete-event systems and artificial intelligence.