IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol.55, No.12, 2864-2869, 2010
A Unified Lyapunov Approach to Analysis of Oscillations and Stability for Systems With Piecewise Linear Elements
This technical note develops a unified Lyapunov approach to analysis of self-induced oscillations and stability for systems with piecewise linear elements. For self-induced oscillation within a global or regional attractor, invariant level sets of a piecewise quadratic Lyapunov function are obtained to bound the attractor via linear matrix inequality based optimization. The analysis results for self-induced oscillations are easily adapted to global or regional stability analysis.