Vibrational control of singularly perturbed systems (Q2709093)

The paper deals with theoretical aspects of a control strategy to modify the stability of the equilibrium of nonlinear singularly perturbed differential equations \[ \frac{d z}{d t} = X(z,y),\;\varepsilon \frac{d y}{d t} = Y(z,y) \] where \(X,Y \in C^2 (N(0))\) and \(\varepsilon\) is a small parameter. The author suggests to introduce fast periodic oscillations with small amplitudes into this system. In particular, the well-known example of inverted pendulum is considered as its motivation. Concepts like weak and strong vibrational stabilizability as well as of partial stabilizability with respect to the slow variable are studied. To find an appropriate vibrational control, the author suggests to transform the original system to its normal form, to which the method of averaging can be applied. Then he proves the existence of an exponentially attracting periodic solution near the origin \(0\) (as trivial equilibrium of \(X, Y\)). For an original treatment of linear systems, see \textit{S. M. Meerkov} [IEEE Trans. Autom. Control AC-25, 755--762 (1980; Zbl 0454.93021)]. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0953.00023].