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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…

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Scaled Relative Graphs (SRGs) provide a novel graphical frequency-domain method for the analysis of nonlinear systems, where Linear Time-Invariant (LTI) systems are the fundamental building block. To analyze feedback loops with unstable LTI…

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In this paper, we show that the small phase condition is both sufficient and necessary to ensure the feedback stability when the interconnected systems are symmetric. Such symmetric systems arise in diverse applications. The key lies in…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-10 Xiaokan Yang , Wei Chen , Li Qiu

Scaled Relative Graphs (SRGs) provide a novel graphical frequency-domain method for the analysis of Nonlinear (NL) systems. In this paper, we restrict the SRG to particular input spaces to compute frequency-dependent incremental gain bounds…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-10 Julius P. J. Krebbekx , Roland Tóth , Amritam Das

Scaled graphs offer a graphical tool for analysis of nonlinear feedback systems. Although recently substantial progress has been made in scaled graph analysis, at present their use in multivariable feedback systems is limited by…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-15 Timo de Groot , Tom Oomen , Sebastiaan van den Eijnden

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

We introduce a generalization of the scaled relative graph (SRG) to pairs of operators, enabling the visualization of their relative incremental properties. This novel SRG framework provides the geometric counterpart for the study of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-26 Jan Quan , Alexander Bodard , Konstantinos Oikonomidis , Panagiotis Patrinos

In this paper, the feedback stabilization of a linear time-invariant (LTI) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system cascaded by a linear stochastic system is studied in the mean-square sense. Here, the linear stochastic system can model…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-06 Junhui Li , Jieying Lu , Weizhou Su

Scaled Relative Graphs (SRGs) provide an intuitive graphical frequency-domain method for the analysis of Nonlinear (NL) systems, generalizing the Nyquist diagram. In this paper, we develop a method for computing $L_2$-gain bounds for Lur'e…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-11 Julius P. J. Krebbekx , Roland Tóth , Amritam Das , Thomas Chaffey

This work encompasses Rate-Splitting (RS), providing significant benefits in multi-user settings in the context of huge degrees of freedom promised by massive Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO). However, the requirement of massive MIMO…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-07 Anastasios Papazafeiropoulos , Bruno Clerckx , Tharm Ratnarajah

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

This paper presents a decentralized frequency-domain framework to characterize the influence of the operating point on the small-signal stability of converter-dominated power systems. The approach builds on Scaled Relative Graph (SRG)…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-17 Eder Baron-Prada , Adolfo Anta , Florian Dörfler

Scaled relative graphs were recently introduced to analyze the convergence of optimization algorithms using two dimensional Euclidean geometry. In this paper, we connect scaled relative graphs to the classical theory of input/output…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-08 Thomas Chaffey , Fulvio Forni , Rodolphe Sepulchre

This paper presents a unified mathematical paradigm, based on stochastic geometry, for downlink cellular networks with multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) base stations (BSs). The developed paradigm accounts for signal retransmission upon…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-04-12 Laila Hesham Afify , Hesham ElSawy , Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

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…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-11-24 Navid Noroozi , Andrii Mironchenko , Fabian R. Wirth

The output impedance matrices of three-phase grid-connected voltage source converters (VSCs) are widely used in power system stability analysis. Regardless of how the impedance is modeled, there always exist coupling terms in the impedance…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-04-04 Huanhai Xin , Ziheng Li , Wei Dong , Zhen Wang , Leiqi Zhang

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…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-02-18 Navid Noroozi , Andrii Mironchenko , Christoph Kawan , Majid Zamani

The scaled graph has been introduced recently as a nonlinear extension of the classical Nyquist plot for linear time-invariant systems. In this paper, we introduce a modified definition for the scaled graph, termed the signed scaled graph…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-02 Sebastiaan van den Eijnden , Chao Chen , Koen Scheres , Thomas Chaffey , Alexander Lanzon

A unified structural framework is presented for model-based fault diagnosis that explicitly incorporates both fault locations and constraints imposed by the residual generation methodology. Building on the concepts of proper and minimal…

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