Control of convex-monotone systems

We define the notion of convex-monotone system and prove that for such systems the state trajectory x(·) is a convex function of the initial state x(0) and the input trajectory u(·). This observation gives a useful class of nonlinear dynamical systems for which control design can be performed by convex optimization. Applications to evolutionary dynamics of diseases and voltage stability in power networks are presented.

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