Stabilizability and a separation principle for periodic orbits (Q1609442)

The author presents a necessary condition for local asymptotic stabilizability of periodic orbits expressed in terms of the Poincaré map for a closed-loop nonlinear control system. Further, the following separation principle is derived: if there exist an asymptotically stabilizing feedback defined in the neighbourhood of a periodic orbit and a local exponential observer for the periodic orbit, then the composite state feedback-state estimator scheme is locally orbitally asymptotically stable. These statements are analogs of some results known for the case of equilibrium points.