On the stability of input-affine nonlinear systems with sampled-data control

This paper is dedicated to the stability analysis of nonlinear sampled-data systems, which are affine in the input. Assuming that a stabilizing continuous-time controller exists and it is implemented digitally, we intend to provide sufficient asymptotic/exponential stability conditions for the sampled-data system. This allows to find an estimate of the upper bound on the asynchronous sampling periods. The stability analysis problem is formulated both globally and locally. The main idea of the paper is to address the stability problem in the framework of dissipativity theory. Furthermore, the result is particularized for the class of polynomial input-affine sampled-data systems, where stability may be tested numerically using sum of squares decomposition and semidefinite programming.