1999/02/03 by Eduardo D. Sontag, Y. Wang, Sontag, Eduardo D. +1 · 3 citations
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arxiv created 1999/07/02 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30
This paper deals with several related notions of output stability with respect to inputs. The inputs may be thought of as disturbances; when there are no inputs, one obtains generalizations of the classical concepts of partial stability. The main notion studied is called input to output stability (IOS), and it reduces to input to state stability (ISS) when the output equals the complete state. Several variants, which formalize in different manners the transient behavior, are introduced. The main results provide a comparison among these notions. A companion paper establishes necessary and sufficient Lyapunov-theoretic characterizations.