Stability For Linear State Space Models
A linear state space model
is asymptotically stable (in fact, exponentially stable) if all real parts of the eigenvalues of are negative. This condition is equivalent to the following one:
has a solution where and (positive definite matrices). (The relevant Lyapunov function is .)
Correspondingly, a time-discrete linear state space model
is asymptotically stable (in fact, exponentially stable) if all the eigenvalues of have a modulus smaller than one.
This latter condition has been generalized to switched systems: a linear switched discrete time system (ruled by a set of matrices )
is asymptotically stable (in fact, exponentially stable) if the joint spectral radius of the set is smaller than one.
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