Computing the L-2 gain for linear periodic continuous-time systems

Abstract

A method to compute the L2 gain is developed for the class of linear periodic continuous-time systems that admit a finite-dimensional state-space realisation. A bisection search for the smallest upper bound on the gain is employed, where at each step an equivalent discrete-time problem is considered via the well-known technique of time-domain lifting. The equivalent problem involves testing a bound on the gain of a linear shift-invariant discrete-time system, with the same state dimension as the periodic continuous-time system. It is shown that a state-space realisation of the discrete-time system can be constructed from point solutions to a linear differential equation and two differential ..