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Lyapunov stability theory is the bedrock of direct adaptive control. Fundamentally, Lyapunov stability requires constructing a distance-like function which must decrease with time to ensure stability. Feedback linearization, backstepping,…
We develop tools for investigation of input-to-state stability (ISS) of infinite-dimensional control systems. We show that for certain classes of admissible inputs the existence of an ISS-Lyapunov function implies the input-to-state…
Reliable quasi-static object manuipulation and robotic locomotion require verification of the stability of equilibria under rigid contacts and friction. In a recent paper, M. Posa, M. Tobenkin, and R. Tedrake demonstrated that…
Stability is a very important property of any physical system. By a stable system, we broadly mean that small disturbances either in the system inputs or in the initial conditions do not lead to large changes in the overall behavior of the…
Lyapunov's second theorem is an essential tool for stability analysis of differential equations. The paper provides an analog theorem for incremental stability analysis by lifting the Lyapunov function to the tangent bundle. The Lyapunov…
This survey paper deals with the stabilization of nonlinear systems by analyzing the controlling method in terms of state feedback and output feedback. A brief overview of some literature on how the feedback controller of some dynamic…
The aim of this paper is to present necessary and sufficient conditions for nonuniform power instability property of linear discrete-time systems in Banach spaces. A characterization of the nonuniform power instability in terms of Lyapunov…
Numerical solutions for the optimal feedback stabilization of discrete time dynamical systems is the focus of this paper. Set-theoretic notion of almost everywhere stability introduced by the Lyapunov measure, weaker than conventional…
The paper presents an approach to the construction of stabilizing feedback for strongly nonlinear systems. The class of systems of interest includes systems with drift which are affine in control and which cannot be stabilized by continuous…
For the $\mathfrak{so}(4)$ free rigid body the stability problem for the isolated equilibria has been completely solved using Lie-theoretical and topological arguments. For each case of nonlinear stability previously found we construct a…
This paper studies the use of vector Lyapunov functions for the design of globally stabilizing feedback laws for nonlinear systems. Recent results on vector Lyapunov functions are utilized. The main result of the paper shows that the…
Railway tracks rest on a foundation known for exhibiting nonlinear viscoelastic behavior. Railway track deflections are modeled by a semilinear partial differential equation. This paper studies the stability of solutions to this equation in…
In this paper, we present new results on finite- and fixed-time convergence for dynamical systems using LaSalle-like invariance principles. In particular, we provide first and second-order non-smooth Lyapunov-like results for finite- and…
In this paper, a linearized asymptotic stability result for a Caputo-Katugampola fractional-order systems is described. An application is given to demonstrate the validity of the proposed results.
We investigate the behavior of the Lyapunov spectrum of a linear discrete-time system under the action of small perturbations in order to obtain some verifiable conditions for stability and openness of the Lyapunov spectrum. To this end we…
We study the stability of general $n$-dimensional nonautonomous linear differential equations with infinite delays. Delay independent criteria, as well as criteria depending on the size of some finite delays are established. In the first…
A noisy damping parameter in the equation of motion of a nonlinear oscillator renders the fixed point of the system unstable when the amplitude of the noise is sufficiently large. However, the stability diagram of the system can not be…
Stability, reachability, and safety are crucial properties of dynamical systems. While verification and control synthesis of reach-avoid-stay objectives can be effectively handled by abstraction-based formal methods, such approaches can be…
In this work, we present a scalable Linear Matrix Inequality (LMI) based framework to verify the stability of a set of linear Partial Differential Equations (PDEs) in one spatial dimension coupled with a set of Ordinary Differential…
Lyapunov-Schmidt reduction is a dimensionality reduction technique in nonlinear systems analysis that is commonly utilised in the study of bifurcation problems in high-dimensional systems. The method is a systematic procedure for reducing…