Technical stability of an automatic control system with changing structure in the neutral case (Q2739955)

This paper deals with a dynamic control system with varying structure of \(n\)-th order NEWLINE\[NEWLINEdx_{i}/dt=x_{i+1}, \quad i=1,\ldots,n-1,NEWLINE\]NEWLINE NEWLINE\[NEWLINEdx_{n}/dt= -\sum_{i=2}^{n}a_{i}x_{i}-u; u=\phi x_{1}, \quad \phi=\begin{cases} \alpha, &\text{if \(x_1s>0\)},\\ \beta & \text{if \(x_1s<0\);}\end{cases}NEWLINE\]NEWLINE \(s=\sum_{i=1}^{n}c_{i}x_{i}\), \(\alpha,\beta, a_{i},c_{i}=\text{const}, c_{n}=1, t\in T\) with the given initial conditions \(x_{i}(t_0)= x_{i}^0, i=1,\ldots,n\). This problem is considered in the domain \(T\times D\), where \(D=\{x_{i}:\;|x_{i}|<h_{i}, i=1,\ldots,n\}\), \(h_{i}=\text{const}>0\), \(T=[t_0, N\mu^{-1}]\), \(T\subset I, I=[t_0,+\infty), t_0\geq 0, \mu\in (0,1), N=\text{const}>0\). Let us define a measure \(\rho=\sum_{i=1}^{n}x_{i}^2\), and let the domain of initial states \(\Omega_0= \{x:\rho\leq\gamma, \gamma=\text{ const}>0\}\) and the domain of admissible current states \(\Omega(t)=\{x:\rho\leq\gamma(t), \gamma(t)>0\}\) be given. Here \(\gamma\leq\gamma(t_0), \Omega_0\subset\Omega(t_0)\), \(\gamma(t)\leq \gamma\) for all \(t\in T\). The author obtains conditions under which \(x(t)\in \Omega(t), t\in T\) for arbitrary continuous variations of initial values \(x_0\in\Omega_0\). A combination of the comparison method and of the direct Lyapunov method is applied.