Robust stabilization of linear uncertain plants with polynomially time varying parameters

Abstract: The robust stabilization of uncertain linear time-varying continuous-time systems with a mode-switch dynamics is considered. Each mode is characterized by a dynamical matrix containing elements whose time behavior over bounded time intervals is sufficiently smooth to be well described by interval polynomials of arbitrary degree. The stability conditions of the switching closed-loop system are derived defining a switched Lyapunov function and involving the dwell time of the system over each single mode. An important feature of the paper is that, unlike all the other existing methods, each plant mode can be stabilized over arbitrarily large uncertain domains of parameters and their derivatives.