Complexity of stability and controllability of elementary hybrid systems

  • Authors:
  • Vincent D Blondel;John N Tsitsiklis

  • Affiliations:
  • Institute of Mathematics B37, University of Liège, Sart Tilman B37, B-4000 Liège, Belgium;Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA

  • Venue:
  • Automatica (Journal of IFAC)
  • Year:
  • 1999

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Abstract

In this paper, we consider simple classes of nonlinear systems and prove that basic questions related to their stability and controllability are either undecidable or computationally intractable (NP-hard). As a special case, we consider a class of hybrid systems in which the state space is partitioned into two halfspaces, and the dynamics in each halfspace correspond to a different linear system.