Reliable Control for Affine Nonlinear Systems

This paper addresses the reliable -control problems for affine nonlinear systems. Based on the Hamilton-Jacobi inequality approach developed in the -control problems for affine nonlinear systems, a method for the design of reliable nonlinear control systems is presented. The resulting nonlinear control systems are reliable in that they provide guaranteed local asymptotic stability and performance not only when all control components are operational, but also in the case of some component outages within a prespecified subset of control components. A numerical example is also given.