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A Lyapunov-Like Characterization of Asymptotic Controllability

Eduardo D. Sontag
- 01 Jan 1983 - 
- Vol. 21, Iss: 3, pp 462-471
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In this paper, it was shown that a control system is controllable to the origin if and only if there exists a positive definite continuous functional of the states whose derivative can be made negative by appropriate choices of controls.
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It is shown that a control system in ${\bf R}^n $ is asymptotically controllable to the origin if and only if there exists a positive definite continuous functional of the states whose derivative can be made negative by appropriate choices of controls.

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Stability of Motion

Wolfgang Hahn
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Stability Theory by Liapunov’s Direct Method

TL;DR: Barachin and Krasovski as mentioned in this paper introduced the concept of Attractivity for non-autonomous equilibria and proposed an approach to construct Liapunov functions.
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Stability of nonlinear control systems

TL;DR: In this article, Liapunov and Popov developed a control system as developed from direct method of LAPUNOV, noting V. M. Popov's contribution.