IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol.46, No.4, 607-613, 2001
Computing quasi-LTI robustness margins in sampled-data systems
The robustness test for sampled-data systems with slowly time-varying perturbations is known to be infinite dimensional in nature. This note develops computationally explicit upper and lower bounds for the corresponding stability radius, presenting them in terms of linear matrix inequalities (LMIs) gi,en by state-space formulas derived. The upper bound is shown to converge monotonically to the stability radius, and so can be systematically tightened at the cost of increased computational effort. The loa er bound is monotonically increasing, and is conjectured to also converge to the stability radius.
Keywords:convex optimization;periodic systems;linear quasi-time invariant (quasi-LTI);sampled-data;structured uncertainty