Contraction methods for nonlinear systems: A brief introduction and some open problems

Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control

Volumn 2015-February, Issue February, 2014, Pages 3835-3847

  Aminzarey, Zahra ^a   Sontagy, Eduardo D ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS; NONLINEAR DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS;

BASIC CONCEPTS; CONTRACTION THEORY; INCREMENTAL STABILITY; REACTION DIFFUSION;

STABILITY;

EID: 84988221155     PISSN: 07431546     EISSN: 25762370     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CDC.2014.7039986     Document Type: Conference Paper

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