Applied Mathematics and Mechanics (English Edition) ›› 2000, Vol. 21 ›› Issue (7): 791-796.

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STRING STABILITY OF INFINITE INTERCONNECTED SYSTEMS

Zhang Jiye1, Yang Yiren2, Zeng Jing 1   

  1. 1. National Traction Power Laboratory, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu 610031, P. R. China;
    2. Institute of Applied Mechanics, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu 610031, P. R. China
  • Received:1998-07-24 Revised:2000-04-16 Online:2000-07-18 Published:2000-07-18
  • Supported by:
    the National Natural Science Foundation of China(19672010)

Abstract: The notion of string stability of a countably infinite interconnection of a class of nonlinear system was introduced. Intuitively, string stability implies uniform boundedness of all the states of the interconnected system for all time if the initial states of the interconnected system are uniformly bounded. Vector V-function method used to judge the stability is generalized for infinite interconnected system and sufficient conditions which guarantee the asymptotic string stability of a class of interconnected system are given. The stability regions obtained here are much larger than those in previous papers. The method given here overcomes some difficulties to deal with stability of infinite nonlinear interconnected system in previous papers.

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