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In this paper, the problem of stability analysis of a large-scale interconnection of nonlinear systems for which the small-gain condition does not hold globally is considered. A combination of the small-gain and density propagation…
Small-gain conditions used in analysis of feedback interconnections are contraction conditions which imply certain stability properties. Such conditions are applied to a finite or infinite interval. In this paper we consider the case, when…
A sufficient condition for the stability of a system resulting from the interconnection of dynamical systems is given by the small gain theorem. Roughly speaking, to apply this theorem, it is required that the gains composition is…
We prove that under a small-gain condition, an interconnection of two globally incrementally exponentially stable systems inherits this property on any compact connected forward invariant set. It is also demonstrated that the…
The small gain condition is sufficient for input-to-state stability (ISS) of interconnected systems. However, verification of the small gain condition requires large amount of computations in the case of a large size of the system. To…
We consider interconnected nonlinear systems with external inputs, where each of the subsystems is assumed to be input-to-state stable (ISS). Sufficient conditions of small gain type are provided guaranteeing that the interconnection is ISS…
We provide a generalized version of the nonlinear small-gain theorem for the case of more than two coupled input-to-state stable (ISS) systems. For this result the interconnection gains are described in a nonlinear gain matrix and the…
In recent years, attempts have been made to extend nonlinear small-gain theorems for input-to-state stability (ISS) from finite networks to countably infinite networks with finite indegrees. Under specific assumptions about the…
A general ISS-type small-gain result is presented. It specializes to a small-gain theorem for ISS operators, and it also recovers the classical statement for ISS systems in state-space form. In addition, we highlight applications to…
This paper introduces small-gain sufficient conditions for $2$-contraction of feedback interconnected systems, on the basis of individual gains of suitable subsystems arising from a modular decomposition of the second additive compound…
Motivated by the scalability problem in large networks, we study stability of a network of infinitely many finite-dimensional subsystems. We develop a so-called relaxed small-gain theorem for input-to-state stability (ISS) with respect to a…
Motivated by a paradigm shift towards a hyper-connected world, we develop a computationally tractable small-gain theorem for a network of infinitely many systems, termed as infinite networks. The proposed small-gain theorem addresses…
We prove a small-gain theorem for interconnections of $n$ nonlinear heterogeneous input-to-state stable (ISS) control systems of a general nature, covering partial, delay and ordinary differential equations. Furthermore, for the same class…
This paper presents a unification and a generalization of the small-gain theory subsuming a wide range of existing small-gain theorems. In particular, we introduce small-gain conditions that are necessary and sufficient to ensure…
For an ISS system, by analyzing local and non-local properties, it is obtained different input-to-state gains. The interconnection of a system having two input-to-state gains with a system having a single ISS gain is analyzed. By employing…
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…
We introduce the concept of non-uniform input-to-state stability for networks. It combines the uniform global stability with the uniform attractivity of any subnetwork, while it allows for non-uniform convergence of all components. For an…
Input-to-state stability (ISS) unifies global asymptotic stability with respect to variations of initial conditions with robustness with respect to external disturbances. First, we present Lyapunov characterizations for input-to-state…
We consider infinite heterogeneous networks, consisting of input-to-state stable subsystems of possibly infinite dimension. We show that the network is input-to-state stable, provided that the gain operator satisfies a certain small-gain…
This work provides stability results in the spatial sup norm for hyperbolic-parabolic loops in one spatial dimension. The results are obtained by an application of the small-gain stability analysis. Two particular cases are selected for the…