Input-to-State Stability of time-varying infinite-dimensional control systems

Abstract: The concept of input-to-state stability (ISS) proposed in the late 1980s is one of the central notions in robust nonlinear control. ISS has become indispensable for various branches of nonlinear systems theory, such as robust stabilization of nonlinear systems, design of nonlinear observers, analysis of large-scale networks, etc. The success of the ISS theory of ODEs and the need for robust stability analysis of partial differential equations (PDEs) motivated the development of ISS theory in the infinite-dimensional setting. For instance, the Lyapunov method for analysis of iISS of nonlinear parabolic equations. For an overview of the ISS theory for distributed parameter systems. ISS of control systems with application to robust global stabilization of the chemostat has been studied with the help of vector Lyapunov functions.