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Robust stabilization conditions for uncertain switched affine systems subject to a unitary input delay are presented. They are obtained through the Lyapunov framework and a min-switching state-feedback predictive control law. The result…
An alternative approach for minimum and mode-dependent dwell-time characterization for switched systems is derived. The proposed technique is related to Lyapunov looped-functionals, a new type of functionals leading to stability conditions…
We present a new approach for constructing polytope Lyapunov functions for continuous-time linear switching systems (LSS). This allows us to decide the stability of LSS and to compute the Lyapunov exponent with a good precision in…
This paper studies control synthesis for a general class of nonlinear, control-affine dynamical systems under additive disturbances and state-estimation errors. We enforce forward invariance of static and dynamic safe sets and convergence…
Control Lyapunov function is a central tool in stabilization. It generalizes an abstract energy function -- a Lyapunov function -- to the case of controlled systems. It is a known fact that most control Lyapunov functions are non-smooth --…
We analyze stability properties of monotone nonlinear systems via max-separable Lyapunov functions, motivated by the following observations: first, recent results have shown that asymptotic stability of a monotone nonlinear system implies…
Learning controllers merely based on a performance metric has been proven effective in many physical and non-physical tasks in both control theory and reinforcement learning. However, in practice, the controller must guarantee some notion…
In this paper we introduce a new method to design control laws for non-linear underactuated systems. Our method produces an infinite dimensional family of control laws, whereas most control techniques only produce a finite dimensional…
This paper studies input-to-state stability for hybrid systems with memory, which models hybrid dynamics affected by time delays. Using both Lyapunov-Razumikhin functions and Lyapunov-Krasovskii functionals, Lyapunov-based sufficient…
We prove the necessary and sufficient conditions for practical stability of nonlinear dynamical system at general phase restrictions. In such a case the Lyapunov function is nondifferentiable. But if the set of initial data is starry…
Predictive safety filters provide a way of projecting potentially unsafe inputs, proposed, e.g. by a human or learning-based controller, onto the set of inputs that guarantee recursive state and input constraint satisfaction by leveraging…
When neural networks are used to model dynamics, properties such as stability of the dynamics are generally not guaranteed. In contrast, there is a recent method for learning the dynamics of autonomous systems that guarantees global…
The paper endeavours to solve the problem of the necessary and sufficient conditions for testing asymptotic stability of the equilibrium state without using a positive definite or semi-definite Lyapunov function for time-invariant nonlinear…
This paper studies the finite-time stability and stabilization of linear discrete time-varying stochastic systems with multiplicative noise. Firstly, necessary and sufficient conditions for finite-time stability are presented via state…
In this article, we provide a general strategy based on Lyapunov functionals to analyse global asymptotic stability of linear infinite-dimensional systems subject to nonlinear dampings under the assumption that the origin of the system is…
Barrier Lyapunov functions are suitable for learning control designs, due to their feature of finite duration tracking. This paper presents fractional barrier Lyapunov functions, provided and compared with the conventional ones in the…
We study asymptotic stability of continuous-time systems with mode-dependent guaranteed dwell time. These systems are reformulated as special cases of a general class of mixed (discrete-continuous) linear switching systems on graphs, in…
This paper considers the problem of finite-time stability for stochastic nonlinear systems. A new Lyapunov theorem of stochastic finite-time stability is proposed, and an important corollary is obtained. Some comparisons with the existing…
This paper provides a new unified framework for second-moment stability of discrete-time linear systems with stochastic dynamics. Relations of notions of second-moment stability are studied for the systems with general stochastic dynamics,…
In this contribution, we study an homogeneous class of nonlinear time delay systems with time-varying perturbations. Using the Lyapunov-Krasovskii approach, we introduce a functional that leads to perturbation conditions matching those…