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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ROBUST AND NONLINEAR CONTROL Int. J. Robust Nonlinear Control 2009; 19:986–1015 Published online 22 July 2008 in Wiley InterScience (). DOI: 10.1002/rnc.1358 A test for stability robustness of linear time-varying systems utilizing the linear time-invariant -gap metric Wynita M. Griggs1, ∗, †, Alexander Lanzon2 and Brian D. O. Anderson1,3 1Department of Information Engineering , Research School of Information Sciences and Engineering , The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200 , Australia 2 Control Systems Centre, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Manchester, Sackville Street, Manchester M60 1QD , U.K. 3National ICT Australia Limited , Locked Bag 8001 , Canberra, ACT 2601 , Australia SUMMARY A stability robustness test is developed for internally stable, nominal, linear time-invariant (LTI) feedback systems subject to structured, linear time-varying uncertainty. There exists (in the literature) a necessary and sufficient structured small gain condition that determines robust stability in such cases. In this paper, the structured small gain theorem is utilized to formulate a (sufficient) stability robustness condition in a scaled LTI -gap metric framework. The scaled LTI -gap metric stability condition is shown to be computable via linear matrix inequality techniques, similar to the structured small gain condition. Apart from a comparison with a generalized robust stability margin as the final part of the stability test, however, the solution algorithm implemented to test the scaled LTI -gap metric stability robustness condition is shown to be independent of knowledge about the controller trans