Feedback Stabilization of Bilinear Control Systems (Q4210183)

This paper investigates the feedback stabilizability of homogeneous bilinear systems. The feedback laws under consideration are piecewise analytic feedbacks (an extension of the concept introduced by \textit{H. J. Sussman} [J. Differ. Equations 31, 31--52 (1979; Zbl 0407.93010)]) which are discontinuous but still yield existence and uniqueness of trajectories. The construction of the stabilizing feedback relies on the analysis of the Floquet and Lyapunov spectrum of bilinear systems and on the analysis of the controllability structure of the associated projected system on the real projective space. Under an accessibility condition the main result shows that negativity of the Floquet spectrum over some control set of the projected system implies feedback stabilizability in the cone over the domain of attraction of this control set. An important corollary of this result is that for homogeneous bilinear systems global asymptotic stabilizability by means of piecewise analytic feedbacks is equivalent to asymptotic controllability using open loop controls.