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Input-to-state stability (ISS) and $\mathcal{L}_2$-gain are well-known robust stability properties that continue to find wide application in the analysis and control of nonlinear dynamical systems and their interconnections. We investigate…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-05-02 Christopher M. Kellett , Peter M. Dower

Input-to-State Stability (ISS) is fundamental in mathematically quantifying how stability degrades in the presence of bounded disturbances. If a system is ISS, its trajectories will remain bounded, and will converge to a neighborhood of an…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-01 Preston Culbertson , Ryan K. Cosner , Maegan Tucker , Aaron D. Ames

The cyclic feedback interconnection of $n$ subsystems is the basic building block of control theory. Many robust stability tools have been developed for this interconnection. Two notable examples are the small gain theorem and the Secant…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-04 Richard Pates

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…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-15 Diego Cifelli , Adolfo Anta

This paper introduces the notion of an Input Constrained Control Barrier Function (ICCBF), as a method to synthesize safety-critical controllers for non-linear control affine systems with input constraints. The method identifies a subset of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-15 Devansh Agrawal , Dimitra Panagou

In this work, we propose a compositional scheme based on small-gain reasoning to synthesize safety controllers for interconnected stochastic hybrid systems. In our proposed setting, we first offer an augmented scheme that characterizes each…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-14 Mahdieh Zaker , Omid Akbarzadeh , Behrad Samari , Abolfazl Lavaei

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…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-15 David Angeli , Davide Martini , Giacomo Innocenti , Alberto Tesi

This paper proposes a systematic framework to assess the small-signal stability of power systems with high shares of grid-following inverter-based resources (IBRs) under varying controller parameters and operating conditions. Stability…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-27 Francesco Conte , Fernando Mancilla-David , Federico Silvestro , Samuele Grillo

Ensuring string stability is critical for the safety and efficiency of large-scale interconnected systems. Although learning-based controllers (e.g., those based on reinforcement learning) have demonstrated strong performance in complex…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-15 Jingyuan Zhou , Haoze Wu , Haokun Yu , Kaidi Yang

This paper proposes decentralized stability conditions for multi-converter systems based on the combination of the small gain theorem and the small phase theorem. Instead of directly computing the closed-loop dynamics, e.g., eigenvalues of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-11 Linbin Huang , Dan Wang , Xiongfei Wang , Huanhai Xin , Ping Ju , Karl H. Johansson , Florian Dörfler

In a pedagogical but exhaustive manner, this survey reviews the main results on input-to-state stability (ISS) for infinite-dimensional systems. This property allows estimating the impact of inputs and initial conditions on both the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-03-09 Andrii Mironchenko , Christophe Prieur

We prove that impulsive systems, which possess an ISS Lyapunov function, are ISS for time sequences satisfying the fixed dwell-time condition. If an ISS Lyapunov function is the exponential one, we provide a stronger result, which…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2012-12-24 Sergey Dashkovskiy , Andrii Mironchenko

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…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-07 Ron Ofir , Michael Margaliot

This paper studies the graph-theoretic conditions for stability of positive monotone systems. Using concepts from input-to-state stability and network small-gain theory, we first establish necessary and sufficient conditions for the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-05-25 Xiaoming Duan , Saber Jafarpour , Francesco Bullo

Bilevel optimization has gained considerable attention due to its broad applicability across various fields. While several studies have investigated the convergence rates in the strongly-convex-strongly-convex (SC-SC) setting, no prior work…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-03 Jianhui Li , Shi Pu , Jianqi Chen , Junfeng Wu

We present a closed-form optimal control that satisfies both safety constraints (i.e., state constraints) and input constraints (e.g., actuator limits) using a composition of multiple control barrier functions (CBFs). This main contribution…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-08 Pedram Rabiee , Jesse B. Hoagg

This paper presents a novel framework for analyzing Incremental-Input-to-State Stability ($\delta$ISS) based on the idea of using rewards as "test functions." Whereas control theory traditionally deals with Lyapunov functions that satisfy a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Daniel Pfrommer , Max Simchowitz , Ali Jadbabaie

In high-penetration renewable power systems with complex and highly variable operating scenarios, grid-connected inverters (GCIs) may transition between different control modes to adapt to diverse grid conditions. Among these, the switching…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-23 Qiping Lai , Yi Shen , Chen Shen

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…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-22 Ruth Kravis , Gabriel Colon-Reyes , Duncan Callaway

Multi-objective safety-critical control entails a diligent design to avoid possibly conflicting scenarios and ensure safety. This paper addresses multi-objective safety-critical control through a novel approach utilizing barrier states…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-08 Hassan Almubarak , Nader Sadegh , Evangelos A. Theodorou