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Stability of discrete nonlinear control systems
Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology Haifa 32000, Israel
Department of Mathematics, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology Haifa 32000, Israel
Department of Electrical Engineering, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology Haifa 32000, Israel
The paper considers multiple-input multiple-output discrete systems with nonlinearities confined to sectors and with linear parts having parameter uncertainties. A recently dervied mathematical tool, the determination of zero-sets location, is used to obtain the complete feasible set of sectors of the nonlinearities which maintain robust absolute stability, according to Tsypkin's criterion. Moreover, for flexibility of design, this set is influenced and controlled by an internal feedback loop. This feedback loop may also serve as a stabilizer of the linear part, if necessary . A numerical example is provided.