Stabilization of periodic sweeping processes and asymptotic average velocity for soft locomotors with dry friction

Global Asymptotic Stabilization of Bilinear Control Systems with Periodic Coefficients

Sufficient conditions for uniform global asymptotic stabilization of the origin are obtained for bilinear control systems with periodic coefficients. The proof is based on the use of the Krasovsky theorem on global asymptotic stability of the origin for periodic systems. The stabilizing control function is feedback control constructed as the quadratic form of the phase variables and depends on ...

Asymptotic velocity of one dimensional diffusions with periodic drift.

We consider the asymptotic behavior of the solution of one dimensional stochastic differential equations and Langevin equations in periodic backgrounds with zero average. We prove that in several such models, there is generically a non-vanishing asymptotic velocity, despite of the fact that the average of the background is zero.

Moving Average Processes with Infinite Variance

The sample autocorrelation function (acf) of a stationary process has played a central statistical role in traditional time series analysis, where the assumption is made that the marginal distribution has a second moment. Now, the classical methods based on acf are not applicable in heavy tailed modeling. Using the codifference function as dependence measure for such processes be shown it be as...

Asymptotic Behavior of Multivariate Reward Processes with Nonlinear Reward Functions

Analytical investigation of periodic solutions for a coupled oscillator with dry friction

In this paper, we present an analytical method to investigate the behavior of a two degrees of freedom oscillator excited by dry friction. The system consists of two masses connected by linear springs. These two masses are in contact with a driving belt moving at a constant velocity. The contact forces between the masses and the belt are obtained from Coulomb’s friction laws. A set of periodic ...