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Passivity is an imperative concept and a widely utilized tool in the analysis and control of interconnected systems. It naturally arises in the modelling of physical systems involving passive elements and dynamics. While many theorems on…
Given two nonlinear systems which only violate incremental passivity when their incremental gains are sufficiently small, we give a condition for their negative feedback interconnection to have finite incremental gain, which generalizes the…
The usual passivity theorem considers a closed-loop, the direct chain of which consists of a strictly passive stable operator $H_{1}$, and the feedback chain of which consists of a passive operator $H_{2}$. Then the closed-loop is stable.…
Passivity theory is one of the cornerstones of control theory, as it allows one to prove stability of a large-scale system while treating each component separately. In practice, many systems are not passive, and must be passivized in order…
We present a new sufficient condition for finite-gain $L_2$ input-to-output stability of a networked system. The condition requires a matrix, that combines information on the $L_2$ gains of the sub-systems and their interconnections, to be…
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…
Lately, data-driven control has become a widespread area of research. A few recent big-data based approaches for data-driven control of nonlinear systems try to use classical input-output techniques to design controllers for systems for…
Due to their relevance in controller design, we consider the problem of determining the $\mathcal{L}^2$-gain, passivity properties and conic relations of an input-output system. While, in practice, the input-output relation is often…
A Small-Gain Theorem, which can be applied to a wide class of systems that includes systems satisfying the weak semigroup property, is presented in the present work. The result generalizes all existing results in the literature and exploits…
This paper is a continuation of the paper \cite{JL}, which focuses on exploring the global stability of nonlinear stochastic feedback systems on the nonnegative orthant driven by multiplicative white noise and presenting a couple of…
We provide a new global small-gain theorem for feedback interconnections of monotone input-output systems with multi-valued input-state characteristics. This extends a recent small-gain theorem of Angeli and Sontag for monotone systems with…
A necessary and sufficient condition, expressed simply as the DC loop gain (ie the loop gain at zero frequency) being less than unity, is given in this paper to guarantee the internal stability of a feedback interconnection of Linear…
Oscillatory behavior is a key property of many biological systems. The Small-Gain Theorem (SGT) for input/output monotone systems provides a sufficient condition for global asymptotic stability of an equilibrium and hence its violation is a…
Convergent, contractive or incremental stability properties of nonlinear systems have attracted interest for control tasks such as observer design, output regulation and synchronization. The convergence property plays a central role in the…
Classical sufficient conditions for ensuring the robust stability of a dynamical system in feedback with a nonlinearity include passivity, small gain, circle, and conicity theorems. We present a generalized version of these results for…
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…
Relaxed conditions are given for stability of a feedback system consisting of an exponentially stable multi-input multi-output nonlinear plant and an integral controller. Roughly speaking, it is shown that if the composition of the plant…
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…
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…
We consider the problem of zeroing an error output of a nonlinear discrete-time system in the presence of constant exogenous disturbances, subject to hard convex constraints on the input signal. The design specification is formulated as a…