Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)This paper investigates the problem of designing robust linear quadratic regulators for uncertain polytopic continuous-time systems over networks subject to delays. The main contribution is to provide a procedure to determine a discrete-time representation of the weighting matrices associated to the quadratic criterion and an accurate discretized model, in such a way that a robust state feedback gain computed in the discrete-time domain assures a guaranteed quadratic cost to the closed-loop continuous-time system. The obtained discretized model has matrices with polynomial dependence on the uncertain parameters and an additive norm-bounded term representing the approximation residual error. A strategy based on linear matrix inequality relaxations is proposed to synthesize, in the discrete-time domain, a digital robust state feedback control law that stabilizes the original continuous-time system assuring an upper bound to the quadratic cost of the closed-loop system. The applicability of the proposed design method is illustrated through a numerical experiment. Copyright (C) 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.26 22992313CAPESCNPqFAPDFFAPESP [2014/22881-1, 2014/25112-9]Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)