Mathematical control theory provides the theoretical foundations that undergird many modern technologies, including aeronautics, biotechnology, communications networks, manufacturing, and models of climate change. During the past fifteen years, there have been numerous exciting developments at the interface of control engineering and mathematical control theory. Many of these advances were base...

There are a number of different quantitative models that can be used in a medical diagnostic decision support system including parametric methods, non-parametric methods and several neural network models. Unfortunately, there is no theory available to guide model selection. The aim of this study is to evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of the recurrent neural networks (RNNs) employing Lyapunov ex...

This paper proposes a Lyapunov-based economic MPC scheme for nonlinear sytems with non-monotonic Lyapunov functions. Relaxed Lyapunov-based constraints are used in the MPC formulation to improve the economic performance. These constraints will enforce a Lyapunov decrease after every few steps. Recursive feasibility and asymptotical convergence to the steady state can be achieved using Lyapunov-...

the modeling investigation in this paper discusses the system level effects of a toxicant on a three species food chain system. in the models, we have assumed that the presence of top predator reduces the predatory ability of the intermediate predator. the stability analysis of the models is carried out and the sufficient conditions for the existence and extinction of the populations under the ...

A method for the explicit computation of the Lyapunov exponents of certain Markov processes is developed. Its utility is demonstrated by an application to two-dimensional random evolution differential equations. Our approach exploits the relation between the Lyapunov exponent and the p-moment Lyapunov exponents, as was first observed and studied by Arnold [1]. The p-moment Lyapunov exponent is ...

Boundary effects in the stepwise structure of the Lyapunov spectra and corresponding wavelike structure of the Lyapunov vectors are discussed numerically in quasi-one-dimensional systems of many hard disks. Four different types of boundary conditions are constructed by combinations of periodic boundary conditions and hard-wall boundary conditions, and each leads to different stepwise structures...

Two efficient and numerically stable methods for the computation of the largest p Lyapunov characteristic exponents of an n dimensional discrete dynamical systems are presented.

Lyapunov functions are a fundamental tool to investigate stability properties of equilibrium points of linear and nonlinear systems. The existence of Lyapunov functions for asymptotically stable equilibrium points is guaranteed by converse Lyapunov theorems. Nevertheless the actual computation (of the analytic expression) of the function may be difficult. Herein we propose an approach to avoid ...