Title: Absolute Stability of Nonlinear Control Systems
Description: This volume presents an overview of some recent developments on the absolute stability of nonlinear control systems. Chapter 1 introduces the main tools and the principal results used in this book, such as Lyapunov functions, K-class functions, Dini-derivatives, M-matrices and the principal theorems on global stability. Chapter 2 presents the absolute stability theory of autonomous control systems and the well-known Lurie problem. Chapter 3 gives some simple algebraic necessary and sufficient conditions for the absolute stability of several special control systems. Chapter 4 discusses nonautonomous and discrete control systems. Chapter 5 deals with the absolute stability of control systems with m nonlinear control terms. Chapter 6 devotes itself to the absolute stability of control systems described by functional differential equations. The book concludes with a useful bibliography. For applied mathematicians, and engineers whose work involves control systems.
Subjects: Mathematics, Functional equations, Mechanical engineering, Systems theory, Nonlinear control theory, Stability, System theory, Differential Equations, Vibration, Ordinary Differential Equations, Control Systems Theory, Vibration, Dynamical Systems, Control, Applications of Mathematics, Difference and Functional Equations