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Zeno behaviors are one of the (perhaps unintended) features of many hybrid models of physical systems. They have no counterpart in traditional dynamical systems or automata theory and yet they have remained relatively unexplored over the years. In this paper we address the stability properties of a class of Zeno equilibria, and we introduce a necessary paradigm shift in the study of hybrid stability. Motivated by the peculiarities of Zeno equilibria, we consider a form of asymptotic stability that is global in the continuous state, but local in the discrete state. We provide sufficient conditions for stability of these equilibria, resulting in sufficient conditions for the existence of Zeno behavior.
This research is supported by the National Science Foundation (award numbers CCR-0225610 and CSR-EHS-0509313).
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Ames, A.D., Tabuada, P., Sastry, S. (2006). On the Stability of Zeno Equilibria. In: Hespanha, J.P., Tiwari, A. (eds) Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control. HSCC 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3927. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11730637_6
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