Title :
On the stability of saturating nonlinear feedback systems
Author_Institution :
University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
fDate :
2/1/1970 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
A saturating nonlinearity contained in a stable feedback system can be considered to lie within the sector [

]. Thus all the well-known Popov-type stability criteria are applicable for the saturating nonlinear feedback system.
Keywords :
Nonlinear systems; Popov stability; Error correction; Feedback control; Limit-cycles; MIMO; Negative feedback; Nonlinear systems; Regulators; Stability criteria; Visualization;
Journal_Title :
Automatic Control, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TAC.1970.1099394