Desynchronization of linear systems (Q801866)

The paper investigates linear discrete-time (sampled-data) systems with respect to stability. The systems are assumed to be desynchronized in time, i.e. the time instants for sampling the different state variables are incommensurable. Two types of desynchronization are distinguished: a phase one and a frequency one. Whereas phase-desynchronization describes sampling instants \(t_ i\) to be \(t_ i=nh+\tau_ i\), frequency- desynchronization describes them as \(t_ i=n(h+\delta_ i)\). Various theorems for determining the stability of such systems are given without proofs, which will be published in another paper. It is appreciable that six examples illustrate the application of the results. Here it turns out, that a system may be stable if it is synchronized and may become unstable if small frequency shifts are introduced: If the frequency shifts become larger and larger, it is interesting to observe stability for the same system again. The text is sometimes not self-explaining: the meaning of the matrices \(F_ i\) can only be deduced from example 3.4 and the abbreviation ''mes'' used in lemma 3.1 may be unknown to some readers. Misprints occur in numbering the equations 1.17 and 1.18 and in example 3.5: \(\lambda^*\!_{2k+1}=2-\sqrt{2}\).