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The concept of input-to-state stability (ISS) proposed in the late 1980s is one of the central notions in robust nonlinear control. ISS has become indispensable for various branches of nonlinear systems theory, such as robust stabilization…
This article deals with input-to-state stability (ISS) of discrete-time switched systems. Given a family of nonlinear systems with exogenous inputs, we present a class of switching signals under which the resulting switched system is ISS.…
For large classes of infinite-dimensional time-varying control systems, the equivalence between integral input-to-state stability (iISS) and the combination of global uniform asymptotic stability under zero input (0-GUAS) and uniformly…
Incremental stability properties are considered for certain systems of forced, nonlinear differential equations with a particular positivity structure. An incremental stability estimate is derived for pairs of input/state/output…
In this paper we show that uniformly global asymptotic stability for a family of ordinary differential equations is equivalent to uniformly global exponential stability under a suitable nonlinear change of variables. The same is shown for…
In this paper, we develop a new approach to study gain operators built from the interconnection gains of infinite networks of dynamical systems. Our focus is on the construction of paths of strict decay which are used for building Lyapunov…
We consider the design of functional estimators, i.e., approaches to compute an estimate of a nonlinear function of the state of a general nonlinear dynamical system subject to process noise based on noisy output measurements. To this end,…
This paper shows that a necessary and sufficient condition for the small-signal stability of an inverter-integrated power system can be expressed in terms of semidefinite matrix inequalities determined only by the synchronous reactance of…
This note establishes the Exponential Input-to-State Stability (EISS) property for a clamped-free damped string with respect to distributed and boundary disturbances. While efficient methods for establishing ISS properties for distributed…
A notion of "asymptotic Cauchy gain" for input/output systems, and an associated small-gain principle, are introduced. A Lyapunov-like characterization allows the computation of these gains for state-space systems, and the formulation of…
This article investigates the robustness of gradient descent algorithms under perturbations. The concept of small-disturbance input-to-state stability (ISS) for discrete-time nonlinear dynamical systems is introduced, along with its…
We provide novel sufficient conditions for stability of nonlinear and time-varying impulsive systems. These conditions generalize, extend, and strengthen many existing results. Different types of input-to-state stability (ISS), as well as…
We consider the problem of zeroing an error output of a nonlinear discrete-time system in the presence of constant exogenous disturbances, subject to hard convex constraints on the input signal. The design specification is formulated as a…
For time-delay systems, it is known that global asymptotic stability is guaranteed by the existence of a Lyapunov-Krasovskii functional that dissipates in a point-wise manner along solutions, namely whose dissipation rate involves only the…
This work proposes a detectability condition for linear time-varying systems based on the exponential dichotomy spectrum. The condition guarantees the existence of an observer, whose gain is determined only by the unstable modes of the…
We provide a novel robust stability analysis for moving horizon estimation (MHE) using a Lyapunov function. Additionally, we introduce linear matrix inequalities (LMIs) to verify the necessary incremental input/output-to-state stability…
We study the problem of mean-square exponential incremental stabilization of nonlinear systems over uncertain communication channels. We show the ability to stabilize a system over such channels is fundamentally limited and the channel…
In the present paper, a novel result for inferring uniform global, not semi-global, exponential stability in the sense of Lyapunov with respect to input-affine systems from global uniform exponential stability properties with respect to…
A new Small-Gain Theorem is presented for general nonlinear control systems. The novelty of this research work is that vector Lyapunov functions and functionals are utilized to derive various input-to-output stability and input-to-state…
This paper presents a data-driven approach for jointly learning a robust full-state observer and its robustness certificate for systems with unknown dynamics. Leveraging incremental input-to-state stability (delta ISS) notions, we jointly…