15th Triennial World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control
  Barcelona, 21–26 July 2002 
STABILITY OF TIME-VARYING DISCRETE-TIME CASCADES
A. Loría* D. Nešić**
* C.N.R.S, UMR 5228, Laboratoire d’Automatique de Grenoble, ENSIEG, St.
Martin d’ Hères, France
** Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The University of
Melbourne, Parkville, 3010, Victoria, Australia.

Stability results for analysis of time-varying discrete-time cascaded systems are presented. Most of these results parallel their continuous-time counterparts although there are some important differences in the proof techniques that are used. More importantly, some fundamental differences between stability properties of discrete-time and continuous-time cascades are pointed out and illustrated via examples.
Keywords: Analysis, discrete-time, nonlinear, stability
Session slot T-Th-A07: Nonlinear Discrete Time Systems I/Area code 2c : Non-linear Systems