DocumentCode
808246
Title
Instabilities caused by floating-point arithmetic quantization
Author
Phillips, Charles L.
Author_Institution
Auburn University, Auburn, AL, USA
Volume
17
Issue
2
fYear
1972
fDate
4/1/1972 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
242
Lastpage
243
Abstract
It is shown that an otherwise stable digital control system may become unstable due to signal quantization if the controller operates on floating-point arithmetic. Sufficient conditions for instability are developed.
Keywords
Finite-wordlength effects; Floating-point arithmetic; Linear systems, time-varying discrete-time; Stability; Contracts; Control systems; Digital arithmetic; Digital control; Floating-point arithmetic; Quantization; Stability;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Automatic Control, IEEE Transactions on
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
0018-9286
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/TAC.1972.1099937
Filename
1099937
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