A Tutorial on Incremental Stability Analysis using Contraction Theory

This paper introduces a methodology for differential nonlinear stability analysis using contraction theory (Lohmiller and Slotine, 1998). The methodology includes four distinct steps: the descriptions of two systems to be compared (the plant and the observer in the case of observer convergence analy...

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Main Authors: J. Jouffroy, T.I. Fossen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Norwegian Society of Automatic Control 2010-07-01
Series:Modeling, Identification and Control
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Online Access:http://www.mic-journal.no/PDF/2010/MIC-2010-3-2.pdf