A NOTE ON THE LYAPUNOV STABILITY OF FRACTIONAL-ORDER NONLINEAR SYSTEMS

摘要

In this paper, stability of fractional order (FO) systems is investigated in the sense of the Lyapunov stability theory. A new definition for exponential stability of the fractional order systems is given and sufficient conditions are obtained for the exponential stability of the FO systems using the notion of Lyapunov stability. Besides, a less conservative sufficient condition is derived for asymptotical stability of FO systems. The stability analysis is done in the time domain. Numerical examples are given to show that the obtained conditions are effective and applicable in practice.