Stability of Infinite-dimensional Sampled-data Systems

Suppose that a static-state feedback stabilizes a continuous-time linear infinite-dimensional control system. We consider the following question: if we construct a sampled-data controller by applying an idealized sample-andhold process to a continuous-time stabilizing feedback, will this sampled-data controller stabilize the system for all sufficiently small sampling times? Here the state space X and the control space U are Hilbert spaces, the system is of the form ẋ(t) = Ax(t) + Bu(t), where A is the generator of a strongly continuous semigroup on X, and the continuous time feedback is u(t) = Fx(t). The answer to the above question is known to be “yes” if X and U are finitedimensional spaces. In the infinite-dimensional case, if F is not compact, then it is easy to find counterexamples. Therefore, we restrict attention to compact feedback. We show that the answer to the above question is “yes”, if B is a bounded operator from U into X. Moreover, if B is unbounded, we show that the answer “yes” remains correct, provided that the semigroup generated by A is analytic. We use the theory developed for static-state feedback to obtain analogous results for dynamic-output feedback control.