Further results on stability of networked control systems: a Lyapunov approach

Simple Lyapunov proofs are given for an improved (relative to previous results that have appeared in the literature) bound on the maximum allowable transfer interval to guarantee global asymptotic or exponential stability in networked control systems and also for semiglobal practical asymptotic stability with respect to the length of the maximum allowable transfer interval. We apply our results to emulation of nonlinear controllers in sampled-data systems.