IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol.47, No.7, 1193-1198, 2002
On semiglobal stabilizability of antistable systems by saturated linear feedback
It was recently established that a second-order antistable linear system can be semiglobally stabilized on its null controllable region by saturated linear feedback and a higher order linear system with two or more antistable poles can be semiglobally stabilized on its null controllable region by more general bounded feedback laws. We will show in this note that a system with three real-valued antistable poles cannot be semiglobally stabilized on its null controllable region by the simple saturated linear feedback.