IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol.51, No.2, 287-292, 2006
A small-gain theorem for motone systems with multivalued input-state characteristics
We provide a small-gain theorem for feedback interconnections of monotone input-output systems with multi-valued input-state characteristics. This extends a small-gain theorem of Angeli and Sontag for monotone systems with singleton-valued characteristics. We prove our theorem using Thierne's convergence theory for asymptotically autonomous systems. We also provide an illustrative example.