Inner-estimating domains of attraction for discrete-time non-polynomial systems with piecewise difference inclusions

Abstract

ABSTRACT In this paper, we propose two successive heuristic iterative methods for inner-estimating domains of attraction for discrete-time non-polynomial systems. Firstly, we utilise a discrete-time fuzzy model to derive a piecewise difference inclusion for the discrete-time non-polynomial system. Then, an initial heuristic iterative method is presented to inner-estimate the domain of attraction as large as possible by first iteratively calculating common Lyapunov-like functions and then heuristically updating piecewise difference inclusions. Afterwards, the initial heuristic iterative method is further improved by piecewise Lyapunov-like functions, arriving at a refined heuristic iterative method. Especially, we introduce homotopy continuation method to decrease the computational complexity. At last, our methods are applied to three discrete-time non-polynomial examples with a brief discussion.