SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, Vol.59, No.1, 223-241, 2021
LYAPUNOV DENSITY CRITERIA FOR TIME-VARYING AND PERIODICALLY TIME-VARYING NONLINEAR SYSTEMS WITH CONVERSE RESULTS
This paper presents criteria for the convergence of trajectories of time-varying nonlinear systems in terms of Lyapunov densities. The results are provided without assuming local stability and forward completeness of trajectories. As well as general time-varying nonlinear systems, periodically time-varying systems are also considered in this paper, where a weaker criterion is proposed for periodically time-varying systems. Also the existence of Lyapunov densities is proved for general and periodic time-varying nonlinear systems under the asymptotic stability of the equilibrium.
Keywords:nonlinear time-varying systems;periodically time-varying systems;stability;almost attraction;Lyapunov density