Lyapunov function of general Lurie systems with multiple nonlinearities (Q1861866)

The authors study the absolute stability problem of general Lur'e control systems with multiple nonlinearities. Some new necessary and sufficient conditions are obtained for the existence of a Lyapunov function of extended Lur'e form with negative definite and negative semidefinite derivatives. From these conditions, some very general algebraic criteria for absolute stability are obtained, which extend and generalize previous works on the subject. A numerical example is presented to illustrate the effectiveness of the new criteria.