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Switching control for incremental stabilization of nonlinear systems via contraction theory
In this paper we present a switching control strategy to incrementally
stabilize a class of nonlinear dynamical systems. Exploiting recent results on
contraction analysis of switched Filippov systems derived using regularization,
sufficient conditions are presented to prove incremental stability of the
closed-loop system. Furthermore, based on these sufficient conditions, a design
procedure is proposed to design a switched control action that is active only
where the open-loop system is not sufficiently incrementally stable in order to
reduce the required control effort. The design procedure to either locally or
globally incrementally stabilize a dynamical system is then illustrated by
means of a representative example.Comment: Accepted to ECC 201
Observer design for piecewise smooth and switched systems via contraction theory
The aim of this paper is to present the application of an approach to study
contraction theory recently developed for piecewise smooth and switched
systems. The approach that can be used to analyze incremental stability
properties of so-called Filippov systems (or variable structure systems) is
based on the use of regularization, a procedure to make the vector field of
interest differentiable before analyzing its properties. We show that by using
this extension of contraction theory to nondifferentiable vector fields, it is
possible to design observers for a large class of piecewise smooth systems
using not only Euclidean norms, as also done in previous literature, but also
non-Euclidean norms. This allows greater flexibility in the design and
encompasses the case of both piecewise-linear and piecewise-smooth (nonlinear)
systems. The theoretical methodology is illustrated via a set of representative
examples.Comment: Preprint accepted to IFAC World Congress 201
Nonlinear analysis of dynamical complex networks
Copyright © 2013 Zidong Wang et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.Complex networks are composed of a large number of highly interconnected dynamical units and therefore exhibit very complicated dynamics. Examples of such complex networks include the Internet, that is, a network of routers or domains, the World Wide Web (WWW), that is, a network of websites, the brain, that is, a network of neurons, and an organization, that is, a network of people. Since the introduction of the small-world network principle, a great deal of research has been focused on the dependence of the asymptotic behavior of interconnected oscillatory agents on the structural properties of complex networks. It has been found out that the general structure of the interaction network may play a crucial role in the emergence of synchronization phenomena in various fields such as physics, technology, and the life sciences
On feedback stabilization of linear switched systems via switching signal control
Motivated by recent applications in control theory, we study the feedback
stabilizability of switched systems, where one is allowed to chose the
switching signal as a function of in order to stabilize the system. We
propose new algorithms and analyze several mathematical features of the problem
which were unnoticed up to now, to our knowledge. We prove complexity results,
(in-)equivalence between various notions of stabilizability, existence of
Lyapunov functions, and provide a case study for a paradigmatic example
introduced by Stanford and Urbano.Comment: 19 pages, 3 figure
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