Title :
Mesh stability of look-ahead interconnected systems
Author :
Pant, Aniruddha ; Seiler, Pete ; Hedrick, Karl
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Mech. Eng., California Univ., Berkeley, CA, USA
fDate :
2/1/2002 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
We define a notion of mesh stability for a class of interconnected nonlinear systems. Intuitively, mesh stability is the property of damping disturbance propagation. We derive a set of sufficient conditions to assure mesh stability of "look-ahead" interconnected systems. Mesh stability is shown to be robust with respect to structural and singular perturbations. The theory is applied to an example of formation flying
Keywords :
Lyapunov methods; aircraft control; dynamics; interconnected systems; nonlinear systems; stability; Lyapunov method; damping disturbance propagation; dynamics; formation flying; interconnected systems; look-ahead systems; mesh stability; nonlinear systems; string stability; sufficient conditions; Automatic control; Control systems; Entropy; Interconnected systems; Optimal control; Probability density function; Rivers; Stability analysis; Stochastic processes; Stochastic systems;
Journal_Title :
Automatic Control, IEEE Transactions on
