Relay-type feedback control systems with dead time and sampling

Abstract
THIS investigation is a time domain study of relay-type feedback control systems with dead time and sampling. It introduces a new approach to the analysis and design of relay-type control systems employing sampling. Because of the sampler, clamper, and relay, the system is nonlinear, and discontinuous in time. Systems of this general nature have been analyzed in the past by Chow1 and Russell2 using the sinusoidal response method introduced by Goldfarb3 and Kochenburger.4