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Sensors 2009, 9, 6795-6818; doi:10.3390/OPEN ACCESS sensors ISSN 1424-8220 /journal/sensors Article On the Application of Different Event-Based Sampling Strategies to the Control of a Simple Industrial Process José Sánchez *, Miguel ángel Guarnes and Sebastián Dormido 1, 2 1 1 Department of Computer Science and Automatic Control, UNED, C/ Juan del Rosal, 16, 28040 Madrid, Spain; E-Mail: sdormido@dia.uned.es (S.D.) 2 National University of San Luis, San Luis, Argentina; E-Mail: mguarnes@.ar (M.A.G.) * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-Mail: jsanchez@dia.uned.es; Tel.: +34 91 398 7146; Fax: +34 91 398 7690. Received: 7 July 2009; in revised form: 20 August 2009 / Accepted: 24 August 2009 / Published: 27 August 2009 Abstract: This paper is an experimental study of the utilization of different event-based strategies for the automatic control of a simple but very representative industrial process: the level control of a tank. In an event-based control approach it is the triggering of a specific event, and not the time, that instructs the sensor to send the current state of the process to the controller, and the controller to compute a new control action and send it to the actuator. In the document, five control strategies based on different event-based sampling techniques are described, compared, and contrasted with a classical time-based control approach and a hybrid one. The common denominator in the time, the hybrid, and the event-based control approaches is the controller: a proportional-integral algorithm with adaptations depending on the selected control approach. To compare and contrast each one of the hybrid and the pure event-based control algorithms with the time-based counterpart, the two tasks that a control strategy must achieve (set-point following and disturbance rejection) are indepe