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The paper is dedicated to data-driven analysis of dynamical systems. It deals with certifying the basin of attraction of a stable equilibrium for an unknown dynamical system. It is supposed that point-wise evaluation of the right-hand side…
This paper addresses the stability problem for discrete-time switched systems under autonomous switching. Each mode of the switched system is modeled as a Linear Parameter Varying (LPV) system, the time-varying parameters can vary…
The paper is devoted to the development of control procedures with a guide for conflict-controlled dynamical systems described by ordinary fractional differential equations with the Caputo derivative of an order $\alpha \in (0, 1).$ For the…
In this paper, an $\mathbb{R}$-analytical function and the sequence of its Taylor polynomials (which are Lyapunov functions different from those of Vanelli & Vidyasagar (1985, Automatica, 21(1):6 9--80)) is presented, in order to determine…
We extend the Lyapunov function technique, a fundamental tool for investigating asymptotic stability and existence of attractors for ordinary differential equations, by introducing the notion of a {\it strong Lyapunov function} for an…
Lyapunov modes are periodic spatial perturbations of phase-space states of many-particle systems, which are associated with the small positive or negative Lyapunov exponents. Although familiar for hard-particle systems in one, two, and…
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…
In this note, we propose a novel approach for a class of autonomous dynamical systems that allows, given some observations of the solutions, to identify its parameters and reconstruct the state vector. This approach relies on proving the…
It is proved that the members of the Riccati hierarchy, the so-called Riccati chain equations, can be considered as particular cases of projective Riccati equations, which greatly simplifies the study of the Riccati hierarchy. This also…
Divergence-free (div-free) and curl-free vector fields are pervasive in many areas of science and engineering, from fluid dynamics to electromagnetism. A common problem that arises in applications is that of constructing smooth approximants…
Lyapunov's indirect method is an attractive method for analyzing stability of non-linear systems since only the stability of the corresponding linearized system needs to be determined. Unfortunately, the proof for finite-dimensional systems…
In this paper, we describe sufficient conditions when block-diagonal solutions to Lyapunov and $\mathcal{H}_{\infty}$ Riccati inequalities exist. In order to derive our results, we define a new type of comparison systems, which are positive…
Several studies analyzed certain nonlinear dynamical systems by showing that the cyclic number of sign variations in the vector of derivatives is an integer-valued Lyapunov function. These results are based on direct analysis of the…
The main goal is to construct a combinatorial dynamical system in the sense of Forman from finite vector field data. We use a linear minimization problem with binary variables and linear equality constraints. The solution of the…
The existence of decompositions of the nonlinear integrable systems not only permits us to establish so-called linear superposition solutions but also to derive new nonlinear integrable coupled systems. Restricting our attention to the…
In this paper we use a path-integral approach to represent the Lyapunov exponents of both deterministic and stochastic dynamical systems. In both cases the relevant correlation functions are obtained from a (one-dimensional) supersymmetric…
A promising step from linear towards nonlinear data-driven control is via the design of controllers for linear parameter-varying (LPV) systems, which are linear systems whose parameters are varying along a measurable scheduling signal.…
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…
This paper presents an automated algorithm to analyze the stability of piecewise affine (PWA) dynamical systems due to their broad applications. We parametrize the Lyapunov function as a PWA function, with polytopic regions defined by the…
We study the quasi-stationary behavior of multidimensional processes absorbed when one of the coordinates vanishes. Our results cover competitive or weakly cooperative Lotka-Volterra birth and death processes and Feller diffusions with…