Sufficient conditions for almost global synchronization in acyclic networks of Kuramoto oscillators with heterogeneous coupling strengths and natural frequencies are presented. The result is established by employing the recently developed Leonov function framework for systems whose dynamics are periodic for all state variables. The synchronization property is accompanied by necessary and sufficient conditions to guarantee the existence of equilibria. The implications of these conditions on the network topology, the oscillator's coupling strengths and natural frequencies are discussed. Finally, the results are illustrated via a numerical example.
Design of controls for ISS and Integral ISS Stabilization of Multistable State Periodic Systems
(2023)
A novel characterization of the integral Inputto-
State Stability (iISS) property is introduced for multistable
systems whose dynamics are periodic with respect to a part of
the state. First, the concepts of iISS-Leonov functions and output
smooth dissipativity are introduced, then their equivalence
to the properties of bounded-energy-bounded-state and global
attractiveness of solutions in the absence of disturbances are
proven. The proposed approach permits to relax the usual
requirements of positive definiteness and periodicity of the iISSLyapunov
functions. Moreover, the usefulness of the theoretical
results is illustrated by a robustness analysis of a nonlinear
pendulum with a constant bias input and an unbounded statedependent
input coefficient.