Robust stability of sampled-data control systems

Because the inter-sample behavior can be considered, the lifting technique now becomes the unique method for design and analysis of sampled-data systems. However, when we consider the robust stability problem by using the small gain theorem, the state transition operator is zero, and the current lifting algorithms can not be used directly. The lifting computation formulas for the case of the robust stability analysis are derived in detail. Further study shows that when the lifting technique is used for robust stability analysis, its result is conservative. A new discretization method for robust stability analysis is proposed in the paper, and it is not conservative when the condition of the small gain theorem is used. Two examples are given here to illustrate the above ideas.