Electrical and Computer Engineering ETDs

Publication Date

4-23-1979

Abstract

Most approaches to the analysis of autonomous nonlinear networks fall under one or more of three categories: topological techniques, stability analysis, and approximate methods. The first method is universal, linear or nonlinear. The application of computer techniques has given strong emphasis to the latter. Approximate methods can give results on estimations of how net­work components affect stability.

This paper is an investigation of the stability of nonlinear resistance in autonomous dynamic networks through approximate methods.

A system that is both unforced and time-invariant is called autonomous. Linear autonomous networks lend themselves to general analytic solutions. With nonlinear autonomous networks, however, such is not the case. In dealing with nonlinear networks, we are constantly concerned with the equilibrium state. This is a point in the state space where the network has a con­stant solution at this point. Under certain conditions, the state, when perturbed from its equilibrium point, will return or stay near its equilibrium point.

A Taylor Series expansion of the state of a nonlinear autonomous network about its equilibrium state yields a linearized model which, in many cases, approximates quite closely the nonlinear network in some nhd of the equilibrium point. This approximation can provide qualitative criteria in establishing the operating properties of the nonlinear autonomous network. If the nonlinear network is stable, it is useful to know if the system is asymptotically stable and in what nhd (neighborhood). That is, we ask "does the perturbed state approach its equilibrium point with the passage of time and over what region?" A non­linear network that has only one asymptotically stable equilibrium state is called globally asymptotically stable.

Document Type

Thesis

Language

English

Degree Name

Electrical Engineering

Level of Degree

Masters

Department Name

Electrical and Computer Engineering

First Committee Member (Chair)

Shlomo Karni

Second Committee Member

Ahmed Erteza

Third Committee Member

Peter Dorato

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