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Quadratic Lyapunov functions for linear systems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

Y. V. Venkatesh
Affiliation:
Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 12, India

Abstract

The paper deals with the existence of a quadratic Lyapunov function V = x′P(t)x for an exponentially stable linear system with varying coefficients described by the vector differential equation The derivative dV/dt is allowed to be strictly semi-(F) and the locus dV/dt = 0 does not contain any arc of the system trajectory. It is then shown that the coefficient matrix A(t) of the exponentially stable system is not identically equal to a unit matrix multiplied by a scalar. The result subsumes that of Lehnigk(1).

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1969

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