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A new Small-Gain Theorem is presented for general nonlinear control systems. The novelty of this research work is that vector Lyapunov functions and functionals are utilized to derive various input-to-output stability and input-to-state…
In a power grid with growing penetrations of renewable energy sources, inverters play a larger role in the dynamic interactions among network components. However, much is yet to be studied regarding inverter-dominated grid stability. This…
This paper deals with input/output-to-state stability (IOSS) of continuous-time switched nonlinear systems. Given a family of systems, possibly containing unstable dynamics, and a set of restrictions on admissible switches between the…
We provide a Lyapunov-function-based method for establishing different types of uniform input-to-state stability (ISS) for time-varying impulsive systems. The method generalizes to impulsive systems with inputs the well-established…
The increasing share of converter based resources in power systems calls for scalable methods to analyse stability without relying on exhaustive system wide simulations. Decentralized small gain and small-phase criteria have recently been…
We study theoretically the performance of electrically pumped self-organized quantum dots as a gain material in the mid-IR range at room temperature. We analyze an AlGaAs/InGaAs based structure composed of dots-in-a-well sandwiched between…
This paper considers small gain theorems for the global asymptotic and exponential input-to-state stability for discrete time time-delay systems using Razumikhin-type Lyapunov function. Among other things, unlike the existing literature, it…
This work presents a fairly complete account on various topological and metrical aspects of feedback stabilization for single-input-single-output (SISO) continuous and discrete time linear-time-invariant (LTI) systems. In particular, we…
Most of the existing characterizations of the integral input-to-state stability (iISS) property are not valid for time-varying or switched systems in cases where converse Lyapunov theorems for stability are not available. This note provides…
In this work, it is demonstrated that the usual power system dynamic model exhibits a feedforward-feedback control structure. The distinct properties of the feedforward and feedback subsystems are identified and studied using respective…
A decentralized stability criterion is derived for a power system with heterogeneous subsystems. A condition for frequency stability and stability of interarea modes is derived using the generalized Nyquist criterion. The resulting scalable…
This paper studies the robustness of large-scale interconnected systems with respect to external disturbances, focussing on their scalability properties. Specifically, a notion of scalability is introduced that asks for these robustness…
The stability of interconnected linear time-invariant systems using singular values and the small gain theorem has been studied for many decades. The methods of mu-analysis and synthesis has been extensively developed to provide robustness…
The present work provides two alternatives to formulate time-discounted incremental input/output-to-state stability (i-IOSS) as a suitable detectability notion for general nonlinear systems with non-additive disturbances. Both formulations…
This paper addresses characterizations of integral input-to-state stability (iISS) for hybrid systems. In particular, we give a Lyapunov characterization of iISS unifying and generalizing the existing theory for pure continuous-time and…
In this paper, we investigate the robustness to external disturbances of switched discrete and continuous systems with multiple equilibria. It is shown that if each subsystem of the switched system is Input-to-State Stable (ISS), then under…
The paper presents a theoretical study on small-signal stability and damping in bulk power systems with multiple grid-forming inverter-based storage resources. A detailed analysis is presented, characterizing the impacts of inverter droop…
We prove the following converse of the passivity theorem. Consider a causal system given by a sum of a linear time-invariant and a passive linear time-varying input-output map. Then, in order to guarantee stability (in the sense of finite…
This article concerns robustness analysis for interconnections of two dynamical systems (described by upper semicontinuous differential inclusions) using a generalized notion of derivatives associated with locally Lipschitz Lyapunov…
We study the state consensus problem for linear shift-invariant discrete-time homogeneous multi-agent systems (MASs) over time-varying graphs. A novel approach based on the small gain theorem is proposed to design the consensus control…