Computing the Domain of Attraction using Numerical Techniques

Stability analysis of controlled nonlinear systems is a problem of fundamental importance in system engineering. This paper elaborates an explicit numerical technique to maximize a quadratic Lyapunov function for the class of polynomial nonlinear models. Using the computed Lyapunov function an enlarged subsets of the basin of attraction of an asymptotically stable equilibrium can be computed in an iterative analytical way. We mainly use the Carleman linearization technique that converts a nonlinear autonomous system of finite dimension into an equivalent linear infinite dimension one. We implement the sampling technique as a numerical tool allowing the maximization of estimated regions of attraction. An example is given to demonstrate the efficiency of the proposed approach. The numerical study analysis of the designed scheme is led using the Matlab software environment.