Title :
Robustness of a relaxation oscillator
Author :
Georgiou, Tryphon T. ; Smith, Malcolm C.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Minnesota Univ., MN, USA
Abstract :
For a relaxation oscillator which consists of a relay-hysteresis in feedback with negative integral action we prove that the oscillatory behaviour is robust to perturbations in the dynamical component of the feedback loop which are sufficiently small in a gap sense
Keywords :
circuit stability; feedback oscillators; hysteresis; nonlinear network analysis; relaxation oscillators; dynamical component; feedback; negative integral action; perturbations; relaxation oscillator; relay-hysteresis; robustness; Feedback loop; Hysteresis; Limit-cycles; Negative feedback; Nonlinear dynamical systems; Oscillators; Relays; Robustness; Topology; Uncertainty;
Conference_Titel :
Decision and Control, 2000. Proceedings of the 39th IEEE Conference on
Conference_Location :
Sydney, NSW
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-6638-7
DOI :
10.1109/CDC.2000.912767
