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Construction of Periodic Counterexamples to the Discrete-Time Kalman Conjecture

Optimization and Control 2020-10-27 v1 Systems and Control Systems and Control

Abstract

This paper considers the Lurye system of a discrete-time, linear time-invariant plant in negative feedback with a nonlinearity. Both monotone and slope-restricted nonlinearities are considered. The main result is a procedure to construct destabilizing nonlinearities for the Lurye system. If the plant satisfies a certain phase condition then a monotone nonlinearity can be constructed so that the Lurye system has a non-trivial periodic cycle. Several examples are provided to demonstrate the construction. This represents a contribution for absolute stability analysis since the constructed nonlinearity provides a less conservative upper bound than existing bounds in the literature.

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@article{arxiv.2009.02468,
  title  = {Construction of Periodic Counterexamples to the Discrete-Time Kalman Conjecture},
  author = {Peter Seiler and Joaquin Carrasco},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2009.02468},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

6 pages, 8 figures, submitted to IEEE CSL