A small-gain criterion for 2-contraction of large scale interconnected systems
Abstract
Despite modular conditions to guarantee stability for large-scale systems have been widely studied, few methods are available to tackle the case of networks with multiple equilibria. This paper introduces small-gain like sufficient conditions for 2-contraction of large-scale interconnected systems on the basis of a family of upper-bounds to the gains that arise from the gains computed on individual channels of the second additive variational equation. Such a condition guarantee the 2-additive compound of the system's Jacobian to be exponentially contractive, thus implying convergence towards equilibria of the system's solutions. The gains are obtained by solving suitable Linear Matrix Inequalities. Three interconnected Thomas' systems are considered in order to illustrate the application of the theory and the degree of conservatism.
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@article{arxiv.2411.09550,
title = {A small-gain criterion for 2-contraction of large scale interconnected systems},
author = {David Angeli and Davide Martini and Giacomo Innocenti and Alberto Tesi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.09550},
year = {2024}
}