Convexity of reachable sets of quasilinear systems (Q6573636)

The reachable set of a quasilinear control system is studied in the presence of integral quadratic constraints. In line with the papers of B. T. Polyak on small Hilbert ball image under nonlinear mappings (cf. [\textit{B. T. Polyak}, Set-Valued Anal. 9, No. 1--2, 159--168 (2001; Zbl 1006.52001); \textit{B. T. Polyak} and \textit{S. A. Nazin}, Math. Comput. Simul. 66, No. 2--3, 207--217 (2004; Zbl 1056.65042)]), this study is reduced to the analysis of a nonlinear mapping from the control space and the small parameter space to the space of the endpoints of the trajectories generated by these controls. It is shown that to maintain the convexity of the reachable set of the considered system for small values of the small parameter, the nonlinear part of the mapping has to have a Lipschitz continuous derivative. Finally, two illustrative examples are also presented.