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In this work sufficient conditions expressed by means of single and vector Lyapunov functions of Uniform Input-to-Output Stability (UIOS) and Uniform Input-to-State Stability (UISS) are given for finite-dimensional systems under feedback…
In this paper, we consider the data-driven discovery of stable dynamical models with a single equilibrium. The proposed approach uses a basis-function parameterization of the differential equations and the associated Lyapunov function. This…
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This technical note studies Lyapunov-like conditions to ensure a class of dynamical systems to exhibit predefined-time stability. The origin of a dynamical system is predefined-time stable if it is fixed-time stable and an upper bound of…
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