Spectral Stability Criterion of Nonlinear Control Systems

Annotation- A spectral stability criterion is formulated for nonlinear control systems, continuous and discrete, whose matrices have a simple structure. The spectrum providing global and exponential stability of a continuous nonlinear system is called acceptable. The spectral stability criterion is formulated as a sufficient condition for the admissibility of the matrix spectrum. For continuous nonlinear systems, the elements of the matrix spectrum are represented by the sum of two components, the first (main) is an arbitrarily selected negative scalar common to the entire spectrum, the second (the so-called increment) is constructed as functions that differ for all elements of the spectrum. The conditions for the admissibility of the matrix spectrum are reduced to a restriction on the maximum absolute value of the increment. A formula has been developed that determines the exact upper bound of this value, which ensures the acceptability of the spectrum. The spectral stability criterion of discrete nonlinear systems is based on the developed criterion for continuous systems. A discrete system with a Lyapunov function in the form of a quadratic form with a constant matrix is compared by a given formula to a continuous system with a Lyapunov function of the same structure. In this case, the formulation of the spectral stability criterion for a nonlinear discrete system is reduced to the spectral stability criterion for a constructed correlated continuous system. The solution of the stabilization problem for a wide class of nonlinear control systems based on the formulated spectral stability criteria is obtained. The disadvantages of the proposed solution are noted.

I. INTRODUCTION

Are non-linear control systems

$Q(x)$ is a matrix of a simple structure with a spectrum $\Lambda (x)$.

The relationship between $\mathrm{\Lambda }(x)$ and the stability of the system (1) is not fully established. The hypothesis of M.A. Aizerman [1], suggesting the proximity of the spectral criterion for systems of the form (1) to the corresponding criterion for a linear system, is refuted by counter examples [2, 3, 4]. In the future, numerous developments were carried out to determine the relationship between the spectrum of the matrix of the system and the stability of the system for much narrower and special types of the matrix of the system $Q(x)$. For example [4] the validity of the Aizerman hypothesis is asserted for $Q(x)=Q^T(x)$ and the stability of the system (1) is checked when the matrix of the system has one eigenvalue of multiplicity $n$ and $n$ eigenvectors. In the works [5, 6,

7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12] more complexly formed classes of control systems are considered, for which variants of the Aizerman hypothesis are valid, but the formation of these classes is set by cumbersome, difficult to test conditions, and the solution of the stabilization problem is extremely time-consuming.

The proposed article considers system (1), i.e. a wide class of nonlinear continuous control systems, and determines the conditions for choosing the spectrum of the matrix of the system that provides the system with the required stability properties. Similar problems are posed and solved for nonlinear discrete control systems with a matrix $G(x_k)$ of a simple structure.

The spectrum of the matrix of the continuous part of system (1) $\Lambda (x)$ is formed as

where the smooth scalar function is given arbitrarily, the functions ${\rho }_i({\lambda }_0(x))$ are defined for each a priori given ${\lambda }_0(x)$ under assumptions.

The spectral stability criterion for a discrete system with a matrix $G(x_k)$ is reduced to the spectral stability criterion of a continuous system with a matrix $Q(x)=(G(x)+I)(G(x)-I{)}^{-1}$

The problem of stabilization of nonlinear control systems of the class under consideration is solved on the basis of the spectral stability criteria.

II. FORMATION OF A SPECTRAL STABILITY CRITERION FOR A NONLINEAR CONTINUOUS CONTROL SYSTEM

Let's consider the system (1), (2) and its assumed Lyapunov function (3). We will consider the Lyapunov function as a quadratic form with a unit matrix, since a quadratic form with an arbitrary positive definite matrix is reduced to such a form by a similarity transformation that does not change the spectrum of the matrix of a closed system.

Consider the spectral decomposition of the matrix $Q(x)$.

where ${\lambda }_i(x)\in \Lambda (x),i=\overline{1,n}$ $d_i(x)$ are the eigenvectors of the matrix $Q(x),g_i(x)$ are the eigenvectors of the matrix $Q^T(x)$. At the same time [13]

We fix an arbitrary number and we will require the fulfillment of the central condition for the function $V(x)$

where

We introduce the following matrices into consideration

i.e.

Let's write out $P(x)$ in more detail and replace the central requirement (5) with an equivalent requirement

Taking into account (2), (4), (9) we have

Note the fairness of [13] inequality

at the same time

Now replace requirement (10) with a stronger requirement

Thus proved

Theorem 1

Let the spectrum of the matrix of system (1) have the form (2), where is an arbitrarily a priori defined function, ${\rho }_i({\lambda }_0(x))$, satisfy the conditions

Then the system (1) - (4) is exponentially and globally stable and has a Lyapunov function (3), where $\dot{V}(x)$ satisfies condition (5).

III. SOLUTION OF THE SPECTRAL STABILIZATION PROBLEM FOR A NONLINEAR CONTINUOUS CONTROL SYSTEM

Consider the system

The pair $(A(x)x,b(x))$ is given and satisfies the condition of uniform controllability.

We assume to be a priori a given number. It is required to determine the feedback vector $s(x)$, at which the closed system (13) has a Lyapunov function (3) satisfying condition (5), i.e. the global and exponential stability of the closed system (13).

The solution of the problem is carried out by the same operations that would be used to solve spectral stabilization for a linear control system.

The spectral decomposition of a matrix in a closed system (13) is considered

where ${\lambda }_i(x)$, satisfies the condition ${\lambda }_i(x)\ne {\lambda }_j(x)i\ne j$, a priori defined spectrum of the matrix $Q(x)$, the eigenvectors of the matrix $Q(x)$ are determined by the formula $d_i(x)=(A-{\lambda }_i(x)I{)}^{-1}b(x)$, the eigenvectors of the matrix $Q^T(x)$ satisfy condition (4), and the desired feedback vector is determined by the formula

Let us select the spectrum of the considered closed system (13) in accordance with the conditions of Theorem (1), i.e. with the formula (12). Then it is obvious that the closed system (13) has the required stability properties. The main difference between this result and the result obtained for a linear control system is the solution of the system (14). For linear control systems, the choice of an arbitrarily set negative spectrum of the matrix of a closed system allows a priori to set the norm of the feedback vector $s(x)$. For the considered variant of spectral stabilization, the question of the possibility of obtaining the norm of the vector $s(x)$ permissible under the preconditions of the problem under consideration remains open.

IV. SPECTRAL STABILITY CRITERION FOR NONLINEAR DISCRETE CONTROL SYSTEMS

The control system is considered

where, without detracting from the generality, we believe

We will call the continuous system

pair system (16), if

Note that the presence of the Lyapunov function (3) in the system (16) ensures the presence of the Lyapunov function

for the system (15). Indeed, the conditions , by virtue of (16), (17) takes the form

Multiplying the last inequality on the left by $(G^T(x)-I)$, and on the right by $(G(x)-I)$, we are convinced of the validity of the condition

the implementation of which ensures the existence of a Lyapunov function of the form (18) for the system (15).

Note that the eigenvalues of the matrix $G(x)$, denoted by ${\mu }_i(x)$ and the eigenvalues of the matrix $G_I(x)$, denoted by ${\vartheta }_i(x)$, are related [14] by the relations

The stability of the system (16) is ensured by the fulfillment of the conditions of Theorem (1) for the spectrum of the matrix $G_1(x)$. Thus, it is proved

Theorem 2

The global stability of the system (15) and the presence of the Lyapunov function (18) in this system is ensured by the implementation on the spectrum of the matrix $G_1(x_k)$

then the conditions that the eigen values of the matrix of the system (16), the paired system (15), ${\vartheta }_i(x)i=\overline{1,n}$ correspond to the formulation of Theorem (1).

V. SPECTRAL STABILIZATION OF NONLINEAR DISCRETE CONTROL SYSTEMS

The solution of the problem of spectral stabilization of a nonlinear discrete control system is performed by the same sequence of operations that takes place when solving this problem for a linear control system. The difference lies in the fact that in the case of a nonlinear system, the a priori selected spectrum of the matrix of a closed nonlinear system is formed in accordance with the conditions of Theorem (2).

VI. CONCLUSION

The main result of the proposed article is the formation of a spectral criterion for the stability of nonlinear control systems

where $Q(x),G(x_k)$ are matrices of a simple structure.

The spectral stability criterion is reduced to determining sufficient conditions for the elements of the matrix spectrum of the considered closed systems, which determine the required stability properties of the system and the presence of the Lyapunov function in the form of a quadratic form with a single matrix.

For continuous control systems we have:

where the smooth scalar function is given arbitrarily, the functions ${\rho }_i({\lambda }_0(x))$ are defined for each a priori given ${\lambda }_0(x)$ under the assumptions

and the exact upper bound for \left|\rho_i(${\lambda }_0$(x))\right|, defined by formula (12).

For discrete control systems, a similar, somewhat more cumbersome result is obtained.

The solution of the problem of spectral stabilization of the systems under consideration is performed by the same operations based on the spectral decomposition of the matrix of a closed system, which this problem is solved for linear control systems. At the same time, the selection of the a priori spectrum of the matrix of a closed system is made in accordance with the developed spectral criterion for the stability of nonlinear control systems.

The developed technique has a significant drawback, when using it, the norm of the feedback vector here may be significantly greater than when solving the stabilization problem based on a priori linearization of the object matrix.