Title :
A comment on the use of spectral radius of a matrix
Author_Institution :
Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Cambridge, MA, USA
fDate :
6/1/1981 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
This correspondence calls attention to the misuse of the spectral radius of system matrices in stability analysis. It is demonstrated via examples that

may diverge even if

for all

.
Keywords :
Matrices; Stability; Adaptive control; Automatic control; Circuit theory; Control systems; Controllability; Convergence; Graph theory; Linear matrix inequalities; Stability analysis;
Journal_Title :
Automatic Control, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TAC.1981.1102712