Clocks and Insensitivity to Small Measurement Errors

Eduardo D. Sontag

ESAIM: Control, Optimisation and Calculus of Variations (2010)

  • Volume: 4, page 537-557
  • ISSN: 1292-8119

Abstract

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This paper deals with the problem of stabilizing a system in the presence of small measurement errors. It is known that, for general stabilizable systems, there may be no possible memoryless state feedback which is robust with respect to such errors. In contrast, a precise result is given here, showing that, if a (continuous-time, finite-dimensional) system is stabilizable in any way whatsoever (even by means of a dynamic, time varying, discontinuous, feedback) then it can also be semiglobally and practically stabilized in a way which is insensitive to small measurement errors, by means of a hybrid strategy based on the idea of sampling at a “slow enough” rate.

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Sontag, Eduardo D.. "Clocks and Insensitivity to Small Measurement Errors." ESAIM: Control, Optimisation and Calculus of Variations 4 (2010): 537-557. <http://eudml.org/doc/116549>.

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