Stability Analysis of Dynamic Output Controllers under Aperiodic Sampling and Input Saturation

International audienceThis paper addresses stability issues of sampled-data controllers. Considering a continuous-time linear plant and a linear discrete-time dynamic output feedback control law designed from a classical periodic sampling paradigm, the main goal is to assess the effects of aperiodic sampling on the closed-loop stability. This aperiodic sampling models for instance the communication delays and package losses through a network. In addition, the effects of control signal saturation on the stability and the maximal admissible sampling interval are also taken into account . In this context, based on the use of a looped functional, linear matrix inequalities (LMI) are derived to ensure the global asymptotic stability of the origin for the aperiodic sampled-data closed-loop system, provided a bound on the maximal sampling interval is given. An optimization problem in order to evaluate the maximal admissible value for the interval between two sampling instants is then associated to the LMI conditions