On the background of a brief survey panorama of results on the topic in the title, one new theorem is presented concerning a positive topological entropy (i.e. topological chaos) for the impulsive differential equations on the Cartesian product of compact intervals, which is positively invariant under the composition of the associated Poincaré translation operator with a multivalued upper semicontinuous impulsive mapping.
Totally bounded differential systems in are defined as having all trajectories bounded. By Dulac’s finiteness theorem it is proved that totally bounded polynomial systems exhibit an unbounded «annulus» of cycles. The portrait of the remaining trajectories is examined in the case the system has, in , a unique singular point. Work is in progress concerning the study of totally bounded polynomial systems with two singular points.
Universal tracking control is investigated in the context of a class of -input, -output dynamical systems modelled by functional differential equations. The class encompasses a wide variety of nonlinear and infinite-dimensional systems and contains – as a prototype subclass – all finite-dimensional linear single-input single-output minimum-phase systems with positive high-frequency gain. The control objective is to ensure that, for an arbitrary -valued reference signal of class (absolutely...
Universal tracking control is investigated in the context of a class S of M-input, M-output dynamical systems modelled by functional differential equations. The class encompasses a wide variety of nonlinear and infinite-dimensional systems and contains – as a prototype subclass – all finite-dimensional linear single-input single-output minimum-phase systems with positive high-frequency gain. The control objective is to ensure that, for an arbitrary -valued reference signal r of class W1,∞ (absolutely...
A survey of investigations of linear differential equations from the point of view of transformations is described. These investigations started in the middle of the last century and continued till the present time. Essential step was done in the fifties by O. Borvka, who started global investigations of the second order equations.