sliding mode control (smc) is a powerful approach to solve the tracking problem for   dynamical systems with uncertainties. however, the traditional smcs introduce actuator chattering phenomenon which performs a desirable behavior in many physical systems such as servo control and robotic systems, particularly, when the zero steady state error is required.  many methods have been proposed to el...

Ecologists have proposed several incompatible definitions of ecological stability. Emulating physicists, mathematical ecologists commonly define it as Lyapunov stability. This formalizes the problematic concept by integrating it into a well-developed mathematical theory. The formalization also seems to capture the intuition that ecological stability depends on how ecological systems respond to ...

This paper deals with a general class of discrete 2D systems based on the Roesser model. We first discuss the existing definitions of (Lyapunov) stability in the area of multidimensional systems and provide strong incentives to adopt new definitions in order to be coherent with the ones usually adopted in the 1D case. Once this background has been carefully designed, we develop different Lyapun...

The consistent Lyapunov methodology enables us, after its single application, to solve completely the asymptotic (or, exponential) stability problem, to construct a system Lyapunov function and to determine accurately the domain of asymptotic stability. This is achieved in the paper for invariant sets of non-differentiable time-varying non-linear systems. The results (proved in details) present...

Lyapunov drift and Lyapunov optimization are powerful techniques for optimizing time averages in stochastic queueing networks subject to stability. However, there are various definitions of queue stability in the literature, and the most convenient Lyapunov drift conditions often provide stability and performance bounds only in terms of a time average expectation, rather than a pure time averag...

The Lyapunov stability method is the most popular and applicable stability analysis tool of nonlinear dynamic systems. However, there are some bottlenecks in the Lyapunov method, such as need for negative definiteness of the Lyapunov function derivative in the direction of the system’s solutions. In this paper, we develop a new theorem to dispense the need for negative definite-ness of Lyapunov...