Qualitative Stability of Nonlinear Networked Systems

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control

Volumn 62, Issue 8, 2017, Pages 4080-4085

  Angulo, Marco Tulio ^a,b   Slotine, Jean Jacques ^c  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CENTRO DE FÍSICA APLICADA Y TECNOLOGÍA AVANZADA   (Mexico)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Networks; nonlinear systems; stability

Indexed keywords

CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; NETWORKS (CIRCUITS); NONLINEAR SYSTEMS; STABILITY; STABILITY CRITERIA;

LARGE SYSTEM; NETWORKED SYSTEMS; QUALITATIVE STABILITY; SIGN PATTERNS; SIGN STABILITY; TECHNICAL NOTES;

SYSTEM STABILITY;

EID: 85029322901     PISSN: 00189286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAC.2016.2617780     Document Type: Article

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