Combination Properties of Weakly Contracting Systems

2014/08/21 by Manchester, Ian R., Slotine, Jean-Jacques E.
#FOS: Mathematics #Optimization and Control (math.OC)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1408.5174

Abstract

A note on the property of weak contraction, which implies that all bounded solutions of a nonlinear system converge to a (possibly non-unique) equilibrium. We provide some simple results about interconnections of such systems, and a brief discussion.

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