Diagonal Stability of Discrete-time k-Positive linear Systems with Applications to Nonlinear Systems

DOI10.1109/TAC.2021.3115443MaRDI QIDQ6359750arXivFDO

Authors Chengshuai Wu, Michael Margaliot

Publication date 3 February 2021

Published in arXiv

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1109/TAC.2021.3115443

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Linear systems in control theory (93C05) Nonlinear systems in control theory (93C10) Positive control/observation systems (93C28) Discrete-time control/observation systems (93C55) Lyapunov and storage functions (93D30)

arXiv classification

math.CAmath.DS

Abstract: A linear dynamical system is called $k$-positive if its dynamics maps the set of vectors with up to $k-1$ sign variations to itself. For $k=1$, this reduces to the important class of positive linear systems. Since stable positive linear time-invariant (LTI) systems always admit a diagonal quadratic Lyapunov function, i.e. they are diagonally stable, we may expect that this holds also for stable $k$-positive systems. We show that, in general, this is not the case both in the continuous-time (CT) and discrete-time (DT) case. We then focus on DT $k$-positive linear systems and introduce the new notion of DT $k$-diagonal stability. It is shown that this is a necessary condition for standard DT diagonal stability. We demonstrate an application of this new notion to the analysis of a class of DT nonlinear systems.

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