  Event-triggered and self-triggered control have recently been proposed as
implementation strategies that considerably reduce the resources required for
control. Although most of the work so far has focused on closing a single
control loop, some researchers have started to investigate how these new
implementation strategies can be applied when closing multiple-feedback loops
in the presence of physically distributed sensors and actuators. In this paper,
we consider a scenario where the distributed sensors, actuators, and
controllers communicate via a shared wired channel. We use our recent
prescriptive framework for the event-triggered control of nonlinear systems to
develop novel policies suitable for the considered distributed scenario.
Afterwards, we explain how self-triggering rules can be deduced from the
developed event-triggered strategies.
