Construction of piecewise-quadratic Lyapunov functions for nonlinear control systems (Q1106797)

Using the direct Lyapunov method the authors give necessary and sufficient conditions for the asymptotic stability of the zero solution of the differential inclusion in \({\mathbb{R}}^ n\), \(\dot x\in R(x)\), where R(x), for every \(x\in {\mathbb{R}}^ n\), is a polyhedron of the form \[ R(x)=conv\cup^{N}_{k=1}A_ kx \] and \(A_ k\) are Hurwitz matrices. It is shown that the problem of the construction of a piecewise-quadratic Lyapunov function for the above problem can be reduced to the problem of the determination of saddle points for a certain function.