On the Use of Backstepping to Achieve Finite Time Stability

Authors:	Galeani Sergio, Universita' di Roma, Italy Onori Simona, University of New Mexico at Albuquerque, United States Abdallah Chaouki T., University of New Mexico at Albuquerque, United States Dorato Peter, University of New Mexico at Albuquerque, United States
Topic:	2.3 Non-Linear Control Systems
Session:	Nonlinear Stability and Structural Analysis
Keywords:	Nonlinear systems, control system design, feedback control, time-domain method, finite-time stability, backstepping.

Abstract

Backstepping and a finite-time stability result of Garrard (Garrard, 1972) are combined to provide a recursive design algorithm for finite-time stability of a class of nonlinear systems.