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The traditional strengths of passive theory can be further extended when applied to switched systems. Some background will be covered on this recent generalization of passivity using multiple storage functions. The passivity-based control application considered in this paper is in distributed systems. A constructive method is covered to solve the output synchronization problem for networked mec...

A passivity-based controller, which takes into account saturation of the magnetic material in the main flux path of the induction motor, is developed to provide close tracking of time-varying speed and flux trajectories in the high magnetic saturation regions. The proposed passivity-based controller is experimentally verified. Also, a comparison between the controllers based on the saturated an...