A Sufficient Condition for k-Contraction of the Series Connection of Two Systems

DOI10.1109/TAC.2022.3177715arXiv2105.07678MaRDI QIDQ6076044FDOQ6076044

Authors: Michael Margaliot, Yoash Levron, Jean-Jacques Slotine 

Publication date: 21 September 2023

Published in: IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The flow of contracting systems contracts 1-dimensional parallelotopes, i.e., line segments, at an exponential rate. One reason for the usefulness of contracting systems is that many interconnections of contracting sub-systems yield an overall contracting system. A generalization of contracting systems is $k$-contracting systems, where $kin1,dots,n$. The flow of such systems contracts the volume of $k$-dimensional parallelotopes at an exponential rate, and in particular they reduce to contracting systems when $k=1$. It was shown by Muldowney and Li that time-invariant $2$-contracting systems have a well-ordered asymptotic behaviour: all bounded trajectories converge to the set of equilibria. Here, we derive a sufficient condition guaranteeing that the system obtained from the series interconnection of two sub-systems is $k$-contracting. This is based on a new formula for the $k$th multiplicative and additive compounds of a block-diagonal matrix, which may be of independent interest. As an application, we find conditions guaranteeing that $2$-contracting systems with an exponentially decaying input retain the well-ordered behaviour of time-invariant 2-contracting systems.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.07678

zbMATH Keywords

compound matricesseries connectionscontracting systemsThomas' cyclically symmetric attractor

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Systems theory; control (93-XX)

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