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This book is an extension of my doctoral dissertation, focusing on techniques for analyzing stability (dissipativity) and achieving stabilization of linear systems that are characterized by non-trivial distributed delays. It specifically…
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This paper introduces a novel approach to evaluating the asymptotic stability of equilibrium points in both continuous-time (CT) and discrete-time (DT) nonlinear autonomous systems. By utilizing indirect Lyapunov methods and linearizing…
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This paper derives a somewhat surprising but interesting enough result on the stabilizability of discrete-time parameterized uncertain systems. Contrary to an intuition, it shows that the growth rate of a discrete-time stabilizable system…
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