Spectral Conditions for Stability and Stabilization of Positive Equilibria for a Class of Nonlinear Cooperative Systems.
P. Ugo Abara, F. Ticozzi and C. Altafini
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 63(2):402--417, 2018.
Nonlinear cooperative systems associated to vector fields that are concave or subhomogeneous describe well interconnected dynamics that are of
key interest for communication, biological, economical and neural network applications. For this class of positive systems, we provide
conditions that guarantee existence, uniqueness and stability of strictly positive equilibria.
These conditions can be formulated directly in terms of the spectral radius of the Jacobian of the system.
If control inputs are available, then it is shown how to use state feedback to stabilize an equilibrium point in the interior of the positive
orthant.
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