Limiting zeros of sampled systems with approximated fractional order hold

This paper is concerned with the properties of zeros of discrete-time systems which are composed of a hold, a continuous-time plant and a sampler in cascade. Here the signal reconstruction is based on the fractional order hold. In order to overcome the implementing problem of the fractional order hold, the piecewise constant reconstruction method by use of the zero order hold is introduced. The properties of the zeros are explored in the limiting cases when the sampling period tends to zero. The stability conditions of the zeros for sufficiently small sampling periods are also presented.