(International Journal of Factory Automation, Robotics and Soft Computing, 2007) Orlowski, Przemyslaw; Institute of Control Engineering, Szczecin University of Technology
The paper concerns on extending the classical Nyquist theorem to stability analysis of linear time-varying (LTV) discrete-time (DT) feedback control systems. Frequency methods, are well- known tool for analysis and synthesis for linear time-invariant systems. Unfortunately, the methods cannot be applied for LTV systems. The main objective is to show that Bode plots approximated using SVD-DFT are adequate methods for evaluating stability margins as well as external stability for LTV systems. We assume discrete-time state space models with time dependent system matrices defined on a finite time horizon. To solve the problem we employ discrete Fourier transform and singular value decomposition of a system matrix operator as well as properties of power spectral density.