Title : 
Local robust performance analysis for nonlinear dynamical systems
         
        
            Author : 
Topcu, Ufuk ; Packard, Andrew
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Control & Dynamical Syst., California Inst. of Technol., Pasadena, CA, USA
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
We propose a computational method for local robust performance analysis of nonlinear systems with polynomial dynamics. Specifically, we characterize upper bounds for local L 2 rarr L 2 input-output gains using polynomial Lyapunov/ storage functions satisfying certain dissipation inequalities and compute safe approximations for these upper bounds via sum-of-squares programming problems. We consider both bounded parametric uncertainties and bounded uncertainties due to unmodeled dynamics.
         
        
            Keywords : 
Lyapunov methods; nonlinear dynamical systems; polynomial approximation; robust control; uncertain systems; bounded parametric uncertainty; local robust performance analysis; nonlinear dynamical system; polynomial Lyapunov function; polynomial dynamics; polynomial storage function; sum-of-squares programming; upper bound approximation; Control systems; Functional programming; Nonlinear dynamical systems; Nonlinear systems; Performance analysis; Polynomials; Robust control; Robustness; Uncertainty; Upper bound;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
American Control Conference, 2009. ACC '09.
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
St. Louis, MO
         
        
        
            Print_ISBN : 
978-1-4244-4523-3
         
        
            Electronic_ISBN : 
0743-1619
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/ACC.2009.5160727