Stability of Slow-Fast Nonlinear Dynamics: Moving Equilibrium Case
Abstract
We study the stability of nonlinear systems subject to both slow and fast time variations. Both can have discontinuities, covering switched systems as a special case. The fast variation is assumed to be periodic; thus, we rely on averaging to construct an average system. Importantly, the equilibrium of the average system depends on the slow variation and is assumed to be exponentially stable when this slow input is frozen. Using perturbation and Lyapunov analyses, we establish a practical stability result showing that the system state remains within a neighborhood of the moving equilibrium when the total variation (flows and jumps) of the slow variation is appropriately bounded and the fast input varies sufficiently fast. The result is illustrated via a nonlinear switched system with slow-fast switching and a mode-dependent equilibrium.
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BibTeX
@misc{tran2026stability,
title = {{Stability of Slow-Fast Nonlinear Dynamics: Moving Equilibrium Case}},
author = {G. Q. Bao Tran and Daniel Liberzon and Hyungbo Shim},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = sep,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2609.23851},
eprint = {2609.23851},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.23851},
note = {CC BY-NC-ND 4.0},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Stability of Slow-Fast Nonlinear Dynamics: Moving Equilibrium Case
AU - G. Q. Bao Tran
AU - Daniel Liberzon
AU - Hyungbo Shim
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/09/20
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2609.23851
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.23851
AB - We study the stability of nonlinear systems subject to both slow and fast time variations. Both can have discontinuities, covering switched systems as a special case. The fast variation is assumed to be periodic; thus, we rely on averaging to construct an average system. Importantly, the equilibrium of the average system depends on the slow variation and is assumed to be exponentially stable when this slow input is frozen. Using perturbation and Lyapunov analyses, we establish a practical stability result showing that the system state remains within a neighborhood of the moving equilibrium when the total variation (flows and jumps) of the slow variation is appropriately bounded and the fast input varies sufficiently fast. The result is illustrated via a nonlinear switched system with slow-fast switching and a mode-dependent equilibrium.
ER -