Impulsive strategies in nonlinear dynamical systems: A brief overview
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Haitao Zhu1, Xinrui Ji1,2, Jianquan Lu1
1Department of Systems Science, School of Mathematics, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, China.
Abstract:
The studies of impulsive dynamical systems have been thoroughly explored, and extensive publications have been made available. This study is mainly in the framework of continuous-time systems and aims to give an exhaustive review of several main kinds of impulsive strategies with different structures. Particularly, (i) two kinds of impulse-delay structures are discussed respectively according to the different parts where the time delay exists, and some potential effects of time delay in stability analysis are emphasized. (ii) The event-based impulsive control strategies are systematically introduced in the light of several novel event-triggered mechanisms determining the impulsive time sequences. (iii) The hybrid effects of impulses are emphatically stressed for nonlinear dynamical systems, and the constraint relationships between different impulses are revealed. (iv) The recent applications of impulses in the synchronization problem of dynamical networks are investigated. Based on the above several points, we make a detailed introduction for impulsive dynamical systems, and some significant stability results have been presented. Finally, several challenges are suggested for future works.
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