Retrospect and prospect on integration of gain and phase for feedback stability analysis

Di Zhao, Li Qiu*

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

In this paper, we review existing approaches to integrating small gain and small phase analysis for feedback stability of dynamical systems, and give a brief outlook for possible future directions in exploring this topic. Small gain analysis has been very successful and popular in control theory since 1960s, while the small phase analysis for multiple-input-multiple-output systems has not been well understood until recently and is now gradually taking shape. Nevertheless, there have been attempts to analyzing feedback stability via the integration of gain and phase information over decades, including the combination of small gain with positive realness as well as that with negative imaginariness. Such combinations can be subsumed into a recently proposed framework for gain-phase integration, which brings in new geometrical methods and also sheds new lights on several future directions.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)555-558
Number of pages4
JournalControl Theory and Technology
Volume20
Issue number4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Nov 2022

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© 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to South China University of Technology and Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Keywords

  • Davis-Wielandt shell
  • Negative imaginary
  • Passivity
  • Positive real
  • Small gain
  • Small phase

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