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In this paper we derive stability conditions for a switched system where switching occurs between linear descriptor systems of different indices. In particular, our results can be used to analyse the stability of the important case when…
A formal methodology for developing variational principles corresponding to a given nonlinear PDE system is discussed. The scheme is demonstrated in the context of the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations, systems of first-order…
In this paper we give an extension of the Barbashin-Krasovski-LaSalle Theorem to a class of time-varying dynamical systems, namely the class of systems for which the restricted vector field to the zero-set of the time derivative of the…
This paper introduce the notion of output contraction that expands the contraction notion to the time-varying nonlinear systems with output. It pertains to the systems' property that any pair of outputs from the system converge to each…
The main objective of this paper is to show that two asymptotically stable steady states which belong to an analytic path of asymptotically stable steady states can be gradually transferred one to the other by successive changes of the…
We study the stability of general $n$-dimensional nonautonomous linear differential equations with infinite delays. Delay independent criteria, as well as criteria depending on the size of some finite delays are established. In the first…
This paper studies the structural controllability of a class of uncertain switched linear systems, where the parameters of subsystems state matrices are either unknown or zero. The structural controllability is a generalization of the…
Many nonlinear dynamical systems can be written as Lure systems, which are described by a linear time-invariant system interconnected with a diagonal static sector-bounded nonlinearity. Sufficient conditions are derived for the global…
This paper deals with transient stability in interconnected micro-grids. The main contribution involves i) robust classification of transient dynamics for different intervals of the micro-grid parameters (synchronization, inertia, and…
This paper deals with input/output-to-state stability (IOSS) of switched nonlinear systems in the discrete-time setting. We present an algorithm to construct periodic switching signals that obey pre-specified restrictions on admissible…
Autonomous agents are often tasked with operating in an area where feedback is unavailable. Inspired by such applications, this paper develops a novel switched systems-based control method for uncertain nonlinear systems with temporary loss…
This work is devoted to investigate the stability properties of time-delay reset systems. We present a Lyapunov-Krasovskii proposition, which generalizes the available results in the literature, providing results for verifying the stability…
Notions of invariance pressure for control systems are introduced based on weights for the control values. The equivalence is shown between inner invariance pressure based on spanning sets of controls and on invariant open covers,…
We analyse the so-called Marginal Instability of linear switching systems, both in continuous and discrete time. This is a phenomenon of unboundedness of trajectories when the Lyapunov exponent is zero. We disprove two recent conjectures of…
Characterization of classes of switching signals that ensure stability of switched systems occupies a significant portion of the switched systems literature. This article collects a multitude of stabilizing switching signals under an…
Linear Parameter-Varying (LPV) systems with piecewise differentiable parameters is a class of LPV systems for which no proper analysis conditions have been obtained so far. To fill this gap, we propose an approach based on the theory of…
In this paper we present a switching control strategy to incrementally stabilize a class of nonlinear dynamical systems. Exploiting recent results on contraction analysis of switched Filippov systems derived using regularization, sufficient…
In this paper, we discuss on the linearized stability of the trivial solution for a class of nonlinear Caputo fractional differential systems of order $\alpha\in(1,2)$. We show that some recent existing results in this direction are wrong.…
We extend the invariance principle for a characteristic function of a dissipative operator with respect to the group of affine transformations of the real axis preserving the orientation to the case of general $SL_2(\bbR)$ transformations.
The invariance principle, through which the steady-state behavior of nonlinear systems was introduced by Isidori and Byrnes, is leveraged in this article to bring forth a unifying characterization of the frequency response of nonlinear…