Admissibility analysis of linear singular systems via a delta operator method

Abstract

In this paper, the problem of admissibility analysis is investigated for linear singular systems through a delta operator method. The delta operator model of a linear singular continuous system is set up first for a special case and then generalised to the common case. It is shown that when the sampling period tends to zero, the delta operator model tends to the corresponding singular continuous system. In order to obtain the above delta operator model, we adopt a linear singular discrete model which contains the sampling period instead of the standard discrete one which contains no sampling period in the modeling process. The relation between the admissibility of the two singular discrete models is analysed and it is proved that the admissibility of one singular discrete model is equivalent to that of the other discrete model. Moreover, based on the relation between the discrete and delta operator models, some admissibility conditions are derived for linear singular delta operator systems. A numerical example is also provided to demonstrate the theoretical results in this paper.