Adaptive Event-Triggered Model Predictive Coverage Control with Average Update-Rate Regulation

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Model predictive coverage control for multi-agent systems operates under tight communication and computation budgets, which requires it to balance the load of optimization against responsiveness to varying spatial priorities. With a fixed event threshold, the update rate varies with operating conditions, making a prescribed average update budget difficult to maintain. We propose threshold-adaptive event-triggered model predictive control (MPC), which adjusts the threshold online in proportion to the difference between the target average period and the latest inter-event interval. We prove convergence of the empirical average update period to any feasible prescribed target and establish initialization-dependent one-sided bounds on the cumulative average. A nonlinear benchmark illustrates these budget guarantees. We then apply the mechanism to coverage MPC using a task-aware statistic that captures robot motion and changes in spatial importance. In a five-agent moving-density study, the adaptive policy uses 204.7 global MPC updates on average against a target of 200, compared with 266.7 for a fixed-threshold policy using the same statistic and initial threshold. It also reduces coverage cost relative to periodic schedules with exactly matched update counts. These results demonstrate direct average-budget regulation and effective task-dependent scheduling of MPC updates.

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