State constrained patchy feedback stabilization

Abstract

We construct a patchy feedback for a general control system on $\R^n$ which realizes practical stabilization to a target set $\Sigma$, when the dynamics is constrained to a given set of states $S$. The main result is that $S$--constrained asymptotically controllability to $\Sigma$ implies the existence of a discontinuous practically stabilizing feedback. Such a feedback can be constructed in "patchy" form, a particular class of piecewise smooth controls which ensure the existence of local Carath\'eodory solutions to any Cauchy problem of the control system and which enjoy good robustness properties with respect to both measurement errors and external disturbances.