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y bounded polytopes. Conservatism (due to parameter-independent Lyapunov functions)<br />

is simply reduced by partitioning the uncertainty set using a branch-and-bound type refinement<br />

procedure.<br />

The approach <strong>of</strong>fers the following advantages: (i) The parameterdependent<br />

Lyapunov functions achieved by uncertainty-space partitioning do not require<br />

an a priori parametrization <strong>of</strong> the Lyapunov function in the uncertain parameters.<br />

(ii)<br />

It leads to optimization problems with smaller semidefiniteness constraints since uncertain<br />

parameters do not explicitly appear in the constraints. Although the size <strong>of</strong> the semidefinite<br />

programming constraints does not increase with the number <strong>of</strong> uncertain parameters, their<br />

number does and the problem becomes challenging as the number <strong>of</strong> uncertain parameters<br />

increases. (iii) A sequential implementation for computing suboptimal solutions which<br />

decouples these constraints into smaller, independent problems arises naturally.<br />

This is<br />

suitable for trivial parallel computing <strong>of</strong>fering a major advantage over approaches utilizing<br />

parameter-dependent Lyapunov functions. Most <strong>of</strong> the results <strong>of</strong> this chapter are reported<br />

in [71, 72].<br />

In Chapter 6, we analyze reachability properties and local input/output gains <strong>of</strong> systems<br />

with polynomial vector fields.<br />

Upper bounds for the reachable set and nonlinear<br />

system gains are characterized using Lyapunov/storage functions and computed solving bilinear<br />

sum-<strong>of</strong>-squares programming problems. A procedure to refine the upper bounds by<br />

transforming polynomial Lyapunov/storage functions to non-polynomial Lyapunov functions<br />

is developed. The simulation-aided analysis methodology is adapted to reachability<br />

and local gain analysis. Finally, a local small-gain theorem is proposed and applied to the<br />

robust region-<strong>of</strong>-attraction analysis for systems with unmodeled dynamics.<br />

Parts <strong>of</strong> the<br />

material presented in this chapter is reported in [69]<br />

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