On Existence of Separable Contraction Metrics for Monotone Nonlinear Systems * *This work was supported by the Australian Research Council.

© 2017 Finding separable certificates of stability is important for tractability of analysis methods for large-scale networked systems. In this paper we consider the question of when a nonlinear system which is contracting, i.e. all solutions are exponentially stable, can have that property verified...

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Main Authors: Manchester, Ian R., Slotine, Jean-Jacques E
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Format: Article
Published: Elsevier BV 2020
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/128494
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Summary:© 2017 Finding separable certificates of stability is important for tractability of analysis methods for large-scale networked systems. In this paper we consider the question of when a nonlinear system which is contracting, i.e. all solutions are exponentially stable, can have that property verified by a separable metric. Making use of recent results in the theory of positive linear systems and separable Lyapunov functions, we prove several new results showing when this is possible, and discuss the application of to nonlinear distributed control design via convex optimization.