Computer generation of sensitivity functions for sampled-data control systems†

Abstract
Methods have been presented previously (Suryanarayanan and Soudack 1970) for the generation of sensitivity functions for general non-linear sampled-data systems. In this paper, it is shown that economy of simulator components (for hybrid computer generation) or of computational time (for digital computer generation) is achieved for simultaneously generating a number of sensitivity functions in a class of linear sampled-data control systems. Extensive use of signal flow graph algebra is made for this purpose and comprehensive examples are presented.