On the prescribed-time attractivity and frozen-time eigenvalues of linear time-varying systems
Abstract
A system is called prescribed-time attractive if its solution converges at an arbitrary user-defined finite time. In this note, necessary and sufficient conditions are developed for the prescribed-time attractivity of linear time-varying (LTV) systems. It is proved that the frozen-time eigenvalues of a prescribed-time attractive LTV system have negative real parts when the time is sufficiently close to the convergence moment. This result shows that the ubiquitous singularity problem of prescribed-time attractive LTV systems can be avoided without instability effects by switching to the corresponding frozen-time system at an appropriate time. Consequently, it is proved that the time-varying state-feedback gain of a prescribed-time controller, designed for an unknown linear time-invariant system, approaches the set of stabilizing constant state-feedback gains.
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@article{arxiv.2112.12120,
title = {On the prescribed-time attractivity and frozen-time eigenvalues of linear time-varying systems},
author = {Amir Shakouri},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2112.12120},
year = {2022}
}
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6 pages, 1 figure, accepted for publication in Automatica