Discrete-timesignals

A discrete-time signal is a sequence or a series of signal values defined in discrete points of time, see Figure 1. These discrete points of time can be

0123456 yk = y(kh) 0,0 0,5 1,0 1,5 2,0 k h=0.2 0.0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1.0 1.2 tk = t [s]
Figure 1: Discrete-time signal denoted tk where k is an integer time index. The distance in time between each point of time is the time-step, which can be denoted h. Thus, h = tk tk1 (1) The time series can be written in various ways: {x(tk)} = {x(kh)} = {x(k)} = x(0), x(1), x(2), . . . (2) To make the notation simple, we can write the signal as x(tk) or x(k). Examples of discrete-time signals are logged measurements, the input signal to and the output signal from a signal filter, the control signal to a physical process controlled by a computer, and the simulated response for a dynamic system.