On the application of the Ważewski method to the problem of global stabilization

Abstract

We consider a possible application of the Ważewski topological method to feedback control systems and to more general dynamical systems. We show how this method can be used to prove the impossibility of global stabilization in such problems. Moreover, we give sufficient conditions for the existence of a solution such that its trajectory never leaves a subset of the extended phase space of the system and does not tend asymptotically to a given equilibrium. We illustrate our result with various real-life systems including the Furuta pendulum and the wheeled inverted pendulum.