Is It Possible to Stabilize Disrete-time Parameterized Uncertain Systems Growing Exponentially Fast?

Abstract

This paper derives a somewhat surprising but interesting enough result on the stabilizability of discrete-time parameterized uncertain systems. Contrary to an intuition, it shows that the growth rate of a discrete-time stabilizable system with linear parameterization is not necessarily to be small all the time. More specifically, to achieve the stabilizability, the system function $f(x)=O(|x|^b)$ with $b<4$ is only required for a very tiny fraction of $x$ in $\mathbb{R}$, even if it grows exponentially fast for the other $x$. The proportion of the mentioned set in $\mathbb{R}$, where the system fulfills the growth rate $ O(|x|^b)$ has also been computed, for both the stabilizable and unstabilizable cases. This proportion, as indicated herein, could be arbitrarily small, while the corresponding system is stabilizable.