Incremental stability and convergence properties for forced, infinite-dimensional, discretetime Lur'e systems are addressed. Lur'e systems have a linear and nonlinear component and arise as the feedback interconnection of a linear control system and a static nonlinearity. Discrete-time Lur'e systems arise in, for example, sampled-data control and integro-difference models. We provide conditions, reminiscent of classical absolute stability criteria, which are sufficient for a range of incremental stability properties and input-to-state stability (ISS). Consequences of our results include sufficient conditions for the converging-input convergingstate (CICS) property, and convergence to periodic solutions under periodic forcing.

We consider forced Lur’e systems in which the linear dynamic component is an infinite-dimensional well-posed system. Numerous physically motivated delay and partial differential equations are known to belong to this class of infinite-dimensional systems. We present refinements of recent incremental input-to-state stability results (Guiver in SIAM J Control Optim 57:334–365, 2019) and use them to derive convergence results for trajectories generated by Stepanov almost periodic inputs. In particular, we show that the incremental stability conditions guarantee that for every Stepanov almost periodic input there exists a unique pair of state and output signals which are almost periodic and Stepanov almost periodic, respectively. The almost periods of the state and output signals are shown to be closely related to the almost periods of the input, and a natural module containment result is established. All state and output signals generated by the same Stepanov almost periodic input approach the almost periodic state and the Stepanov almost periodic output in a suitable sense, respectively, as time goes to infinity. The sufficient conditions guaranteeing incremental input-to-state stability and the existence of almost periodic state and Stepanov almost periodic output signals are reminiscent of the conditions featuring in well-known absolute stability criteria such as the complex Aizerman conjecture and the circle criterion.

We present sufficient conditions for semi-global incremental input-to-state stability of a class of forced discrete-time Lur'e systems. The results derived are reminiscent of well-known absolute stability criteria such as the small gain theorem and the circle criterion. We derive a natural sufficient condition which guarantees that asymptotically (almost) periodic inputs generate asymptotically (almost) periodic state trajectories. As a corollary, we obtain sufficient conditions for the converging-input converging-state property to hold.

A low-gain integral controller with anti-windup component is presented for exponentially stable, linear, discrete-time, infinite-dimensional control systems subject to input nonlinearities and external disturbances. We derive a disturbance-to-state stability result which, in particular, guarantees that the tracking error converges to zero in the absence of disturbances. The discrete-time result is then used in the context of sampled-data low-gain integral control of stable well-posed linear infinite-dimensional systems with input nonlinearities. The sampled-date control scheme is applied to two examples (including sampled-data control of a heat equation on a square) which are discussed in some detail.

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