Utilization of noise for the control of a class of non-linear systems

Abstract

Utilization of noise for the control of a class of non-linear systems is presented. The application of state-multiplicative noise as a mean of control is far more limited then the use of standard determinis?tic gains. Nevertheless, so called Stochastic Anti Resonance (SAR) with state-multiplicative noise based control, do arise in a variety of situations such as in engineering applications, physics modelling, bi?ology, and models of visuo-motor tasks. Linear Matrix Inequalities based conditions from recent publications are reviewed, that character?ize stochastic stability of such nonlinear systems applying SAR. While those results dealt with systems that are, apriori, modelled using sec?tor bounded nonlinearities, we demonstrate that more general systems that can be approximated as such, can be also controlled using SAR.