Robust stability analysis and controller synthesis for uncertain impulsive positive systems under L₁-gain performance

This paper addresses the problems of robust stability analysis and L₁-gain controller synthesis for uncertain impulsive positive systems. First, by employing the idea of impulse interval partitioning, an impulse-time-dependent discretized copositive Lyapunov function is proposed to analyze the robust stability and L₁-gain performance of the considered system without control inputs, and several stability conditions and L₁-gain criteria are respectively derived. Subsequently, a sufficient condition is formulated for the existence of state-feedback controllers with which not only the positivity and robust uniform asymptotic stability of the resulting closed-loop system are guaranteed, but also a prescribed L₁-gain performance is satisfied simultaneously. Furthermore, to make the controller synthesis problem numerically tractable, we propose an iterative convex optimization algorithm to compute the desired controller parameters. Finally, three numerical examples and two realistic examples are presented to show the effectiveness and applicability of the proposed methodology.