IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol.58, No.8, 2071-2076, 2013
Extensions of "Pade Discretization for Linear Systems With Polyhedral Lyapunov Functions" for Generalized Jordan Structures
Recently, we showed that certain types of polyhedral Lyapunov functions for linear time-invariant systems, are preserved by diagonal Pade approximations, under the assumption that the continuous-time system matrix A(c) has distinct eigenvalues. In this technical note, we show that this result also holds true in the case that A(c) has non-trivial Jordan blocks.
Keywords:Discretization;nontrivial Jordan blocks;Pade approximations;polyhedral Lyapunov functions;preservation of Lyapunov functions