Digitization of nonautonomous control systems (Q1763678)

The authors apply nonautonomous dynamical systems techniques in order to analyze local controllability and feedback stabilizability of nonautonomous control systems by means of their linearization. The main tools used in this paper are exponential dichotomies whose relation to controllability and stabilizability has been established before by the second co-author and \textit{M. Nerurkar} [Mem. Am. Math. Soc. 646, 48 p. (1998; Zbl 1155.93328)]. The main result of the paper is that local controllability -- when characterized by the linearization -- persists under digitization. Here the technically rather involved definition of digitization basically means the approximation of the nonautonomous system by a piecewise autonomous system. The classical engineering issue of sampling a continuous time feedback is not explicitly addressed in this paper, but the reviewer conjectures that it could be treated within the rather general digitization framework used here.