Actuator fault detection for sampled-data systems was investigated from the viewpoint of jump systems.With the aid of a prior frequency information on fault, such a problem is converted to an augmented H∞ filtering problem. A simple state-space approach is then proposed todeal with sampled-data actuator fault detection problem. Compared with the existed approaches, the proposed approach allows parameters of the sampled-data system being time-varying with consideration of measurement noise.