Feedback Stability Analysis via Dissipativity with Dynamic Supply Rates

Abstract: We propose a general notion of dissipativity with dynamic supply rates for nonlinear systems. This extends classical dissipativity with static supply rates and dynamic supply rates of miscellaneous quadratic forms. The main results of this paper concern Lyapunov and asymptotic stability analysis for nonlinear feedback dissipative systems that are characterised by dissipation inequalities with respect to compatible dynamic supply rates but involving possibly different and independent auxiliary systems. Importantly, dissipativity conditions guaranteeing stability of the state of the feedback systems, without concerns on the stability of the state of the auxiliary systems, are provided. The key results also specialise to a simple coupling test for the interconnection of two nonlinear systems described by dynamic (Psi, Pi, Upsilon, Omega)-dissipativity, and are shown to recover several existing results in the literature, including small-gain, passivity indices, static (Q, S, R)-dissipativity, dissipativity with terminal costs, etc. Comparison with the input-output approach to feedback stability analysis based on integral quadratic constraints is also made.