The paper deals with the stability properties of linear discrete-time switched systems with polytopic sets of modes. The most classical way of studying the uniform asymptotic stability of such a system is to check for the existence of a quadratic Lyapunov function. It is known from the literature that letting the Lyapunov function depend on the time-varying switching parameter improves the chan...

This paper deals with the asymptotic stability of neutral systems with mixed time-varying delays and nonlinear perturbations. Based on the Lyapunov–Krasovskii functional including the triple integral terms and free weighting matrices approach, a novel delay-decomposition stability criterion is obtained. The main idea of the proposed method is to divide each delay interval into two equal segment...

This paper presents a new approach for the stability analysis of TakagiSugeno (T-S) fuzzy systems. An idea is investigated to use piecewise quadratic Lyapunov function with low amount of computations. This class of Lyapunov function candidates is much richer than the common quadratic Lyapunov function. By exploiting the piecewise continuous Lyapunov function, we derive stability conditions that...

In 1892, the general problem of stability by the first approximation was considered by Lyapunov. He proved that if the system of the first approximation is regular and all its Lyapunov exponents (or characteristic exponents) are negative, then the solution of the original system is asymptotically Lyapunov stable. In 1930, it was stated by O. Perron that the requirement of regularity of the firs...

Swarm principles are increasingly being used to design controllers for the coordination of multi-robot systems or, in general, multi-agent systems. This paper proposes a two-dimensional Lagrangian swarm model that enables the planar agents, modeled as point masses, to swarm whilst effectively avoiding each other and obstacles in the environment. A novel method, based on an extended Lyapunov app...

This paper proposes a set of Lyapunov-type conditions that are suited for stability analysis of large-scale discrete-time systems. A time-wise relaxation of the Lyapunov function decrease condition is employed to derive a set of global and distributed stability conditions. Essentially, these conditions allow to make a trade-off between complexity and conservatism by extending the time-horizon o...

Abstract. A new class of fractional 2D Lyapunov systems described by the Roesser models is introduced. Necessary and sufficient conditions for the positivity and asymptotic stability of the new class of systems are established. It is shown that the checking of the asymptotic stability of positive 2D fractional Lyapunov systems can be reduced to testing the asymptotic stability of corresponding ...

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This paper studies the problem of robust absolute stability of a class of nonlinear discrete-time systems with time-varying matrix uncertainties of polyhedral type and multiple time-varying sector nonlinearities. By using the variational method and the Lyapunov second method, criteria for robust absolute stability are obtained in different forms for the class of systems under consideration. Spe...