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Finite time controllers. (English) Zbl 0603.93005

Necessary and sufficient conditions are given for the solution of the ordinary differential equation ${d}^{2}x/d{t}^{2}=g\left(x,\stackrel{˙}{x}\right)$ from an initial point $\left({x}_{0},{\stackrel{˙}{x}}_{0}\right)\in {R}^{2}$ to arrive at (0,0) in finite time, where $g\left(0,0\right)=0$, and g is C except at (0,0) where it is continuous. In particular, the following classes of second-order systems result in trajectories which reach (0,0) in finite time:

$\left(i\right)\phantom{\rule{1.em}{0ex}}{d}^{2}x/d{t}^{2}=-{sgn\left(x\right)|x|}^{a}-sgn\left(\stackrel{˙}{x}\right){|x|}^{b},\phantom{\rule{4.pt}{0ex}}\text{where}\phantom{\rule{4.pt}{0ex}}0b/\left(2-b\right),$

and

$\left(ii\right)\phantom{\rule{1.em}{0ex}}{d}^{2}x/d{t}^{2}=-{sgn\left(x\right)|x|}^{a}-sgn\left(\stackrel{˙}{x}\right){|\stackrel{˙}{x}|}^{b}+f\left(x\right)+d\left(\stackrel{˙}{x}\right),$

where $0 $a>b/\left(2-b\right)>0,$ $f\left(0\right)=d\left(0\right)=0,$ $O\left(f\right)>O\left(|x{|}^{a}\right)$ and $O\left(d\right)>O\left(|\stackrel{˙}{x}{|}^{b}\right)·$

Remark: In Lemmas 1 and 2, statements like "... with $0 such that $S" should read "... with $0 such that x(t)ẋ(t)$<0$ for $S."

Reviewer: J.Gayek
##### MSC:
 93B05 Controllability 93B03 Attainable sets 93C10 Nonlinear control systems 34D20 Stability of ODE 93D05 Lyapunov and other classical stabilities of control systems 34H05 ODE in connection with control problems 93C15 Control systems governed by ODE