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This paper introduces small-gain sufficient conditions for $2$-contraction of feedback interconnected systems, on the basis of individual gains of suitable subsystems arising from a modular decomposition of the second additive compound…
Multistationarity - the existence of multiple equilibrium points - is a common phenomenon in dynamical systems from a variety of fields, including neuroscience, opinion dynamics, systems biology, and power systems. A recently proposed…
The small gain condition is sufficient for input-to-state stability (ISS) of interconnected systems. However, verification of the small gain condition requires large amount of computations in the case of a large size of the system. To…
We consider interconnected nonlinear systems with external inputs, where each of the subsystems is assumed to be input-to-state stable (ISS). Sufficient conditions of small gain type are provided guaranteeing that the interconnection is ISS…
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…
We provide a generalized version of the nonlinear small-gain theorem for the case of more than two coupled input-to-state stable (ISS) systems. For this result the interconnection gains are described in a nonlinear gain matrix and the…
We prove that under a small-gain condition, an interconnection of two globally incrementally exponentially stable systems inherits this property on any compact connected forward invariant set. It is also demonstrated that the…
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…
For an ISS system, by analyzing local and non-local properties, it is obtained different input-to-state gains. The interconnection of a system having two input-to-state gains with a system having a single ISS gain is analyzed. By employing…
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…
We consider interconnections of n nonlinear subsystems in the input-to-state stability (ISS) framework. For each subsystem an ISS Lyapunov function is given that treats the other subsystems as independent inputs. A gain matrix is used to…
TheL2-gain characterizes a dynamical system's input-output properties, but can be difficult to determine for nonlinear systems. Previous work designed a nonconvex optimization problem to simultaneously search for a continuous piecewise…
Small-gain conditions used in analysis of feedback interconnections are contraction conditions which imply certain stability properties. Such conditions are applied to a finite or infinite interval. In this paper we consider the case, when…
We present a new approach to verifying contraction and $L_2$-gain of uncertain nonlinear systems, extending the well-known method of integral quadratic constraints. The uncertain system consists of a feedback interconnection of a nonlinear…
A sufficient condition for the stability of a system resulting from the interconnection of dynamical systems is given by the small gain theorem. Roughly speaking, to apply this theorem, it is required that the gains composition is…
In recent years, attempts have been made to extend nonlinear small-gain theorems for input-to-state stability (ISS) from finite networks to countably infinite networks with finite indegrees. Under specific assumptions about the…
This paper provides a Lyapunov-based small-gain theorem for input-to-state stability (ISS) of networks composed of infinitely many finite-dimensional systems. We model these networks on infinite-dimensional $\ell_{\infty}$-type spaces. A…
A general ISS-type small-gain result is presented. It specializes to a small-gain theorem for ISS operators, and it also recovers the classical statement for ISS systems in state-space form. In addition, we highlight applications to…
In this paper, the problem of stability analysis of a large-scale interconnection of nonlinear systems for which the small-gain condition does not hold globally is considered. A combination of the small-gain and density propagation…
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…