Stability of dynamical systems with competitive controls: The degenerate case (Q1804768)

Given a dynamical system: \((*)\;\dot y = f(y,a,b)\), \(y(0) \in R^ n\) where \(y\) is an \(n\)-dimensional vector-function and \(a\), \(b\) are measurable control functions. The problem of the paper is to examine the stability of the trajectories generated by \((*)\) with respect to the given closed set \(T \subset R^ n\). It is assumed that the controls \(a\), \(b\) are governed by two players, the first one (a) intends to stabilize the trajectory to the set \(T\), but the second one (b) prevents the system \((*)\) from reaching the set \(T\). One consider that (b) represents disturbances which are an obstacle to stabilization. The paper is written in terms of differential games, i.e. the first player (control \(a\)) uses selected strategies, the second one (player \(b\)) selects controls. This application of differential games theory may be used suitably in different control problems, where the dynamic system is perturbed in an unexpected way.