A Tutorial on incremental stability analysis using contraction theory

Modeling, Identification and Control

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 93-106

  Jouffroy, J ^a   Fossen, T I ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Contraction theory; Exponential stability; Incremental stability; Lyapunov stability; Methodology

Indexed keywords

EID: 78149348816     PISSN: 03327353     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4173/mic.2010.3.2     Document Type: Article

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