Middleton, Richard H.; Goodwin, Graham C. Improved finite word length characteristics in digital control using delta operators. (English) Zbl 0608.93053 IEEE Trans. Autom. Control 31, 1015-1021 (1986). When passing from analogous transfer function to digital transfer functions several methods are currently used, e.g. bilinear transform, impulse response-invariance method, and Euler method (EM). The last consists in replacing the complex variable s by \((z^{-1}-1)/\Delta =\delta\), where z is the shift operator, \(\Delta\) is the sampling interval and \(\delta\) is the so-called \(\delta\) operator. It is well known that EM gives satisfactory results when the poles are located near the point \(1+j.0\) in the z-plane, what is equivalent to use a sampling rate equal to near 10 times the filter bandwidth. In the paper it is shown that EM has some advantages over the other methods when simulating control systems. Some numerical examples clearly show these advantages (superior roundoff noise performance, less sensitive control design). Also, it is shown that the \(\delta\) operator method allows a better understanding of the link between the continuous and discrete-time approach to system analysis. Reviewer: D.Stanomir Cited in 1 ReviewCited in 65 Documents MSC: 93C57 Sampled-data control/observation systems 93B17 Transformations 93E11 Filtering in stochastic control theory 93C55 Discrete-time control/observation systems Keywords:digital filters; digital control systems; Euler method PDFBibTeX XMLCite \textit{R. H. Middleton} and \textit{G. C. Goodwin}, IEEE Trans. Autom. Control 31, 1015--1021 (1986; Zbl 0608.93053) Full Text: DOI