Some remarks about periodic feedback stabilization

Sepulchre, R and Campion, G and Wertz, V (1993) Some remarks about periodic feedback stabilization. In: UNSPECIFIED pp. 403-408..

Abstract

Periodic feedback stabilization is a very natural solution to overcome the topological obstructions which may occur when one tries to asymptotically (locally) stabilize a (locally) controllable nonlinear system around an equilibrium point. The object of this paper is to give a simple geometric interpretation of this fact, to show that one obtains a weakened form of those obstructions when periodic feedback is used, and to illustrate the success of periodic feedback stabilization on a representative system which contains a drift.