Robust Regions of Attraction Generation for State-Constrained Perturbed Discrete-Time Polynomial Systems

Abstract: In this paper we propose a convex programming based method for computing robust regions of attraction for state-constrained perturbed discrete-time polynomial systems. The robust region of attraction of interest is a set of states such that every possible trajectory initialized in it will approach an equilibrium state while never violating the specified state constraint, regardless of the actual perturbation. Based on a Bellman equation which characterizes the interior of the maximal robust region of attraction as the strict one sub-level set of its unique bounded and continuous solution, we construct a semi-definite program for computing robust regions of attraction. Under appropriate assumptions, the existence of solutions to the constructed semi-definite program is guaranteed and there exists a sequence of solutions such that their strict one sub-level sets inner-approximate and converge to the interior of the maximal robust region of attraction in measure. Finally, we demonstrate the method by two examples.