Serial interconnections of 1-contracting and 2-contracting systems

DOI10.1109/CDC45484.2021.9682810MaRDI QIDQ6364388zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Michael Margaliot, Yoash Levron, Jean-Jacques Slotine

Publication date 2 April 2021

Abstract: The flow of contracting systems contracts 1-dimensional polygons (i.e. lines) 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 recent generalization of contracting systems is called $k$-contracting systems, where $kin1,dots,n$. The flow of such systems contracts $k$-dimensional polygons at an exponential rate, and in particular they reduce to contracting systems when $k=1$. Here, we analyze serial interconnections of $1$-contracting and $2$-contracting systems. We provide conditions guaranteeing that such interconnections have a well-ordered asymptotic behaviour, and demonstrate the theoretical results using several examples.

This page was built for publication: Serial interconnections of 1-contracting and 2-contracting systems

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q6364388)