A Compositional Approach to Certifying Almost Global Asymptotic Stability of Cascade Systems
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J. Welde, M. D. Kvalheim and V. Kumar, "A Compositional Approach to Certifying Almost Global Asymptotic Stability of Cascade Systems," in IEEE Control Systems Letters, vol. 7, pp. 1969-1974, 2023, doi: 10.1109/LCSYS.2023.3284338.
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In this letter, we give sufficient conditions for the almost global asymptotic stability of a cascade in which the subsystems are only almost globally asymptotically stable. The result is extended to upper triangular systems of arbitrary size. In particular, if the unforced subsystems are almost globally asymptotically stable and their only chain recurrent points are hyperbolic equilibria, then the boundedness of forward trajectories is sufficient for the almost global asymptotic stability of the full upper triangular system. We show that unboundedness of such cascades is prohibited by growth rate conditions on the interconnection term and a Lyapunov function for the unforced outer subsystem, and the required structure for the chain recurrent set is enjoyed by classes of systems common in geometric control, e.g., dissipative mechanical systems. Our results stand in contrast to prior works that require either time scale separation, strong disturbance robustness properties, or global asymptotic stability in the subsystems.