• DocumentCode
    826523
  • Title

    Global controllability for a class of bilinear systems

  • Author

    Wei, K.C. ; Pearson, A.E.

  • Author_Institution
    Combustion Engineering, Inc., Windsor, CT, USA
  • Volume
    23
  • Issue
    3
  • fYear
    1978
  • fDate
    6/1/1978 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    486
  • Lastpage
    488
  • Abstract
    Using fixed-point arguments, sufficient conditions are derived for global controllability of a nonhomogeneous bilinear system and a related class of nonlinear systems. It is shown that certain boundedness assumptions can be removed relative to previous results.
  • Keywords
    Bilinear systems, continuous-time; Controllability; Control system synthesis; Control systems; Controllability; Differential equations; Motion control; Nonlinear control systems; Nonlinear systems; Stability; Sufficient conditions; Symmetric matrices;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Automatic Control, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9286
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TAC.1978.1101759
  • Filename
    1101759