International Journal of Control, Vol.88, No.8, 1540-1553, 2015
Global stabilisation for a class of more general high-order time-delay nonlinear systems by output feedback
This paper addresses the problem of global stabilisation by output feedback for a class of high-order time-delay nonlinear systems with more general uncertainties, which cover both high-order and low-order nonlinearities. By introducing sign function and necessarily modifying the homogeneous domination approach, an output feedback controller is successfully constructed to guarantee the global asymptotic stability of the resulting closed-loop system. Due to the versatility of the homogeneous domination approach and homogeneous properties, the proposed method is also utilised to the control design of upper-triangular systems.
Keywords:high-order nonlinear systems;time-varying delays;output feedback;homogeneous domination approach;sign function;global asymptotic stability