IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol.64, No.11, 4668-4675, 2019
Feedforwarding Under Sampling
The paper deals with stabilization of feedforward multiple cascade dynamics under sampling. It is shown that u-average passivity concepts and Lyapunov methods can be profitably exploited to provide a systematic sampled-data design procedure. The proposed methodology recalls the continuous-time feedforwarding steps and can be applied under the same assumptions as those set over the continuous-time cascade dynamics. The final sampled feedback is carried out through a three-steps procedure that involves iterative passivation and stabilization in the u-average sense. Constructive aspects are developed to compute approximate solutions which are indeed implemented in practice. An example is worked out with comparative simulations with respect to usual sampled-and-hold implementations.
Keywords:Feedforward systems;Lyapunov methods;Passivation;Computational modeling;Nonlinear systems;Stability criteria;Discrete-time systems;Algebraic;geometric methods;nonlinear systems;sampled data control;stability of NL systems