Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society
Volume 2017 (2017), Article ID 9730312, 14 pages
https://doi.org/10.1155/2017/9730312

Research Article

Finite-Time Stabilization for a Class of Nonlinear Differential-Algebraic Systems Subject to Disturbance

Xiaohui Mo,¹ Huawei Niu,² and Qixun Lan³

¹School of Computer Engineering, Jinling Institute of Technology, Nanjing 211169, China
²School of Mathematics, Pingdingshan Institute of Education, Pingdingshan 467000, China
³School of Mathematics and Physics, Henan University of Urban Construction, Pingdingshan 467000, China

Correspondence should be addressed to Qixun Lan; q.lan@hncj.edu.cn

Received 13 July 2016; Accepted 15 January 2017; Published 15 February 2017

Academic Editor: Rigoberto Medina

Copyright © 2017 Xiaohui Mo et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Abstract.

In this paper, finite-time stabilization problem for a class of nonlinear differential-algebraic systems (NDASs) subject to external disturbance is investigated via a composite control manner. A composite finite-time controller (CFTC) is proposed with a three-stage design procedure. Firstly, based on the adding a power integrator technique, a finite-time control (FTC) law is explicitly designed for the nominal NDAS by only using differential variables. Then, by using homogeneous system theory, a continuous finite-time disturbance observer (CFTDO) is constructed to estimate the disturbance generated by an exogenous system. Finally, a composite controller which consists of a feedforward compensation part based on CFTDO and the obtained FTC law is proposed. Rigorous analysis demonstrates that not only the proposed composite controller can stabilize the NDAS in finite time, but also the proposed control scheme exhibits nominal performance recovery property. Simulation examples are provided to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed control approach.

1. Introduction

Differential-algebraic systems (DASs) [1–3] known as singular systems [4–7], descriptor systems [8–10], or implicit systems [11] represent an important class of systems. Because DASs provide a more general representation than normal systems in the sense of modelling, many practical systems, such as power systems, robot systems, and economic systems, are beyond the description of normal systems but can be described by DASs [4]. Hence, the analysis and control design problems of DASs have attracted a lot of attention from the engineering and academic fields in the past several decades. However, most existing work focus on linear DASs; see [4–6, 11–14] and the references therein.

Nonlinear DASs (NDASs) characterize a class of rather complex systems, which not only have nonlinearities but also have singular nature of algebraic constraints. Therefore, compared to linear DASs, the investigation of NDASs is more difficult. As far as the control problem for NDASs is concerned, only a few results are available in the literature. Under the assumption that nonlinear differential-algebraic equations can be described by a nonlinear control system on a smooth manifold, the feedback stabilization problem of NDASs was addressed in [15]. For a class of affine nonlinear singular systems, the feedback control problem and exact linearization approach were considered in [7]. By using the feedback linearization approach, the feedback stabilization problem for a class of NDASs was solved in [7]. By linear matrix inequality technique, the work [16] considered the stability and the damping control design problems for a class of NDASs. Based on backstepping technique [17], a robust controller design method was proposed for a class of NDASs. It is known to all that disturbances widely exist in practical control systems and bring negative effects to the control performance of these systems. Disturbance attenuation is of great importance in the control system design [11, 18–23]. In [10], control problem for a class of nonlinear descriptor systems was studied, and the necessary and sufficient condition was derived for the solvability of the problem. By using Hamiltonian function method, the stabilization and control problems for a class of NDASs were addressed in [24]. For a general class of nonlinear singular systems subjected to external disturbance, the work [25] removed the normalizability assumption and proposed a complete solution of output regulation problems. By using internal model approach, robust output regulation problem for a class of nonlinear singular systems subjected to disturbance was investigated in [26]. In order to enhance the disturbance rejection ability of NDASs, a composite hierarchical antidisturbance control method was proposed for a class of nonlinear singular systems with multiple disturbances in [27]. It should be pointed out that almost all the existing results about the control problem of NDASs mentioned above only concern the asymptotic stability which means convergence with an infinite settling time.

Under a finite-time controller, the closed-loop usually demonstrates not only faster convergence rate but also higher accuracy as well as better disturbance rejection properties [28–31]. In view of these advantages, at present, more and more interest has been focused on the system control and design problems by using FTC technique [32–38]. However, most of the finite-time stabilization results available in the literature are only applicable to normal control systems. Due to the inherent characteristics of NDASs, the finite-time stabilization problems of NDASs are more challenging. Recently, an energy based approach was proposed to study the finite-time stabilization and finite-time control problems of a class of nonlinear Hamiltonian descriptor systems in [9]. For a NDAS subjected to nonvanishing disturbance, the issue of how to design a controller such that the corresponding closed-loop system is finite-time stable has not been addressed.

In this paper, we will consider the finite-time stabilization problem for a class of NDASs subject to external disturbance. To deal with this problem, motivated by the recently developed disturbance observer based control technique [18, 22, 23, 39, 40], a composite control approach is obtained by using the adding a power integrator technique [41] and homogeneous system theory [42]. It is shown that under the proposed composite controller the corresponding closed-loop system is finite time stable even in the presence of the nonvanishing external disturbance. The block diagram of the proposed composite control scheme is described by Figure 1. The general design procedure of the composite controller is given according to the following steps. Firstly, when there is no disturbance in NDAS, under some mild conditions, a nominal FTC law is designed recursively by using the adding a power integrator technique. Due to the domination nature of the adopted method, the algebraic variables are not needed to be solved from the algebraic constraints explicitly, and only differential variables are involved in the proposed nominal FTC law. Secondly, to estimate the disturbance, a continuous finite-time disturbance observer (CFTDO) is constructed based on homogeneous systems theory. It is shown that under the proposed CFTDO the disturbance can be estimated precisely in finite time. Finally, based on the proposed nominal FTC law and the estimation of the disturbance, a CFTC is constructed. Rigorous theoretical analysis shows that the proposed CFTC will render the closed-loop system finite-time stable even in the presence of nonvanishing disturbance. With the proposed composite control approach, the disturbance rejection ability of the system is significantly improved without sacrificing the nominal performance recovery property.

Figure 1: The block diagram of the proposed composite control scheme.

The remainder of the paper is organized as follows. In the next section, the problem description is given. Section 3 presents the main result of this paper including the design of nominal FTC law, CFTO, and the CFTC for the NDAS. In Section 4, the effectiveness of the proposed control algorithm is testified by employing a simulation example. Some concluding remarks are included in Section 5. Appendices A and B collect the preliminaries and the proofs of several key propositions, respectively.

2. Problem Description

Consider the following NDASs:

where is a vector of differential variables, is a vector of algebraic variables, is the control input, is the external disturbance, respectively; and , , , are continuous nonlinear functions, and nonlinear functions . Assume that the origin is an isolated equilibrium point: that is, , .

For NDASs (1a) and (1b), it is supposed that the disturbance is generated by the following exogenous system:

where , the matrices , , and , and and are known constants while the constant is not assumed to be known, which means that may be a type of nonvanishing disturbance.

Remark 1. In many cases, the disturbance is considered to be generated by a continuous ecosystem [18, 19, 25–27]. It can be verified that, with different parameters , , and , (2) can be used to describe a wide class of disturbances, such as constant disturbance [22], ramp disturbance [20], harmonic disturbance [18], and polynomial disturbance [21]. It is well known that the existence of disturbance will bring bad effects to practical engineering system. Therefore, it is no doubt that if the disturbances can be estimated precisely in finite time, then use its estimation to compensate it by using proper feedback control. The obtained composite feedback control will enhance the disturbance rejection ability as well as increase control precision of the considered control system.

The control objective is to design a composite controller for NDASs (1a) and (1b) such that the closed-loop system is finite-time stable even in the presence of disturbance.

To solve the finite-time stabilization problem of NDASs (1a) and (1b), the following two assumptions are needed.

Assumption 2. There are two constants and such that

with

where is a known function.

Remark 3. In the literature, most of the results for NDASs are obtained based on the assumption that the nonlinear functions need to meet smooth conditions [2, 3, 7–10, 15–17, 22, 25, 26] or Lipschitz conditions [27, 43]. However, it is observed that, from Assumption 2, the nonlinear terms in system (1a) may violate these two conditions, which means that (1a) and (1b) may be a non-Lipschitz continuous system [44, 45]. Obviously, system (1a) and (1b) under Assumption 2 can be used to describe a more general class of NDASs.

Assumption 4. There exist a positive constant and a function such that

For the simplicity, we assume that and with and being even integers and and being odd integers. Under this assumption, and will always be odd in both denominator and numerator.

Remark 5. For Assumption 4, the following two points need to be explained.
(i) The condition in Assumption 4 allows us to infer the NDAS behavior to some extent from results on normal systems [2]. In fact, if we define , and , then it follows from Assumption 4 that the Jacobian of with respect to has full rank on ; that is, NDASs (1a) and (1b) are index one, which can guarantee that the NDASs (1a) and (1b) are impulse free and have at least one solution for any consistent initial conditions satisfying .
(ii) Based on Assumption 4, we have

It follows from (6) that . According to (5), it can be shown that

This implies that the following inequality holds:

with . This means that the algebraic variable could be bounded by homogeneous-like polynomial.
With the help of Assumption 4, we are able to handle a wide class of NDASs. It is obvious that when NDASs (1a) and (1b) are of index one, by implicit function theorem, there exists a function so that . However, there are many NDASs whose algebraic constraints could represent severe nonlinearities. In this condition, the algebraic variables might not be solved explicitly from the nonlinear algebraic constraints, but they could be bounded by homogeneous-like polynomials. For example, consider the following NDAS without disturbance:

It can be easily proved that . But it is difficult to solve explicitly from the nonlinear algebraic constrains . In fact, according to the nonlinear algebraic , we have

It is can be easily deduced from (10) that

with , which is in the form of (5).

3. Composite Controller Design and Stability Analysis

In this section, we will focus on solving the finite-time stabilization problem of NDASs (1a) and (1b) with the disturbance generated by the exogenous system (2). The detailed design and analysis procedure is divided into three parts, and we will present it step by step.

3.1. Part I: Nominal FTC Law Design for NDASs (1a) and (1b)

In this part, we will propose the nominal FTC law design method for NDASs (1a) and (1b) without considering external disturbance. Based on this nominal FTC law, in what follows, a composite controller will be constructed to enhance the disturbance rejection ability and the accuracy of the closed-loop system.

Theorem 6. Consider NDASs (1a) and (1b) without external disturbance; if Assumptions 2 and 4 hold, then there exists a FTC law rendering system (1a) and (1b) finite-time stable.

Proof. The proof of this theorem will be carried out in an inductive argument manner which will enable us to construct a Lyapunov function and a virtual control law at each step.
Initial Step. For system (1a) and (1b), choose Lyapunov function . The time derivative of along the trajectory of (1a) and (1b) is

By Assumption 4, we have . It follows from Assumption 2 that with .
Hence,

Clearly, the virtual control law defined by , where is a smooth, nonnegative function, leads to

Inductive Step. Suppose at step that there exist a Lyapunov function , which is positive definite and homogeneous with respect to the dilation , and a set of virtual control laws , defined by

with smooth functions , such that

We claim that (16) still holds at step . To prove this claim, we consider the Lyapunov function

with . By using a similar method in [45], it can be proved that the Lyapunov function (17) is a positive definite function.
Taking the derivative of the Lyapunov function along system (1a) and (1b) yields

with a virtual control law to be determined later.
To proceed further, we need to estimate each term of the right hand side of (18). For the second term in (18), based on the fact and Lemmas A.6 and A.7, it can be shown that there exists a constant such that

To estimate the third term and the fourth term of the right hand side of inequality (18), the following propositions are introduced, the proofs of which are included in Appendix B.
Proposition 7. There exists a function such that

Proposition 8. There exists a smooth function such that

Substituting the estimates (19), (B.3), and (21) into (18) yields

Clearly, if the virtual control law is chosen as

then we have

This completes the inductive proof.
By the inductive argument, it is obvious that (16) still holds as . That is, at the last step, we are able to design a Lyapunov function , and a virtual control law such that

By Definition A.3 and Lemma A.4, it can be shown that the homogeneous degree of and are and with respect to the delation , respectively. By using Lemma A.4 again, there exists a positive constant such that .
Obviously, if we choose

then by using Lemma A.6, we have

Note that ; thus, . By Lemma A.2, the states of subsystem (1a) will converge to the origin in finite time; that is, there exists a time constant such that .
Based on this and Assumption 4, let ; it follows from that as . And then based on the fact , , as , and , we have as . Proceeding in the same line, it can be shown that step by step.
Therefore, it can be concluded that the closed-loop system (1a) and (1b) and (26) are finite-time stable.

Remark 9. It is generally known that the selection of Lyapunov function plays a central role in the control design procedure. For NDAS in an alternative expression

where , is smooth enough and , and is a singular matrix with . According to [10, 44], if NDAS (28) is index one, then there exist two nonsingular matrices such that . That is, if we let , and , then system (28) is equivalent to the system described by , with and . However, due to the inherent mixed differential-algebraic structure for DASs, the selection of Lyapunov function and the calculation of the derivative of the Lyapunov function along the trajectory of the systems are more difficult than those of the normal systems [22]. It is obvious that the finite-time stabilization problem of NDAS (1a) and (1b) is not a trivial issue. To study the finite-time stabilization problem of system (1a) and (1b) without disturbance, our motivation is twofold.
(i) From the energy perspective, the algebraic constraints can be naturally regarded as the generalized internal energy balance, so the algebraic constraints do not affect energy balance between the system and external world [24]. And in [10], it was pointed out that for the index one descriptor system (28) only the part where contributes to the energy function.
(ii) To stabilize a linear singular system, it is sufficient to finish this task by applying slow feedback [4].
Based on these two points and the merits of the adding a power integrator technique, we have proved that it is feasible to design Lyapunov function and FTC control law for NDAS (1a) and (1b) by only using the differential variables.

In the absence of disturbance, Theorem 6 provides a finite-time stabilization approach for NDASs (1a) and (1b). However, in the presence of external disturbance, the proposed control approach cannot guarantee that the states of the system converge to the origin accurately in finite time. Inspired by the recently developed disturbance observer based control technique [18, 20, 22, 27], we will design a continuous nonlinear disturbance observer such that the disturbance can be estimated in finite time, and then combining the proposed FTC law and the disturbance estimation a CFTC will be given in the next part.

3.2. Part II: CFTDO Design

In this part, we will concentrate on the CFTDO for system (1a) and (1b) by using homogeneous system theory.

Combining (1a) and (2), we define

Based on (1a), (2), and (29), we get the derivatives of that

where the nonlinear functions

As , are known constants, and are known nonlinear functions, it is obvious that are known nonlinear terms.

Therefore, the CFTDO design problem of system (1a) and (1b) is converted to the finite-time state observer for system (30).

Lemma 10. For system (30), there exists a states observer in the following form:

where , , , and are appropriate positive constants, such that the states of system (30) can be estimated in finite time.

Proof. Let ; then based on system (30) and (32) the observe error system is obtained:

According to Theorem in [37], if we choose appropriate constants ; then system (33) is globally finite-time stable. Thus, there exists a constant such that , as .
According to (29) and (2), it is can be shown that

That is, both the disturbance and it is derivative can be estimated in finite time.

Remark 11. To estimate disturbances, many available disturbance observer design methods have been proposed in the literature; for example, see [18–20, 23, 27] and the reference therein. It should be pointed out that most of the existing disturbance observer design approaches can achieve asymptotic estimates of the disturbances only. To enhance the disturbance rejection ability and control accuracy of the system, it is necessary to develop the design method of finite time disturbance observer, such that the disturbance can be estimated in finite time. Under the assumption that the disturbance is high-order differentiable and bounded, the work [32] proposed a noncontinuous finite-time disturbance observer design method by using high-order sliding mode control technique. Different from [32], Lemma 10 proposes a CFTDO design method under the assumption that disturbance is generated by an exogenous system.

With the help of Theorem 6 and Lemma 10, we are able to propose a finite-time stabilization approach for NDASs (1a) and (1b) subject to disturbance.

3.3. Part III: CFTC Design for NDASs (1a) and (1b)

In this part, we will propose a CFTC for NDASs (1a) and (1b) with disturbance, and rigorous stability analysis will be given to guarantee the finite-time stability of the corresponding closed-loop system.

Theorem 12. Consider NDASs (1a) and (1b) subject to the disturbance generated by the exogenous system (2); if Assumptions 2 and 4 hold, then under the controller

the closed-loop system composed of (1a) and (1b) and (35) is finite-time stable.

Proof. For NDASs (1a) and (1b) with disturbance, we choose the same Lyapunov function presented above. In the same line as Theorem 6, we have

By Definition A.3 and Lemma A.4, it can be shown that the homogeneous degree of and are and with respect to the delation , respectively. And according to Lemma A.4, there exists a positive constant such that .
Substituting (35) into inequality (36) and using Lemma A.6 yield

By the analysis and design procedure of the CFTDO, it is easy to know that the observe error system (33) is global finite-time stable. Thus, the states are global bounded. Based on this, and (29) and (34), it is obvious that is global bounded and . Then, by the definition of FTISS-Lyapunov function in [34], one knows that is a FTISS-Lyapunov function of the closed-loop system combined by (1a) and (35). By Lemma A.5, it is obvious that the states of subsystem (1a) will converge to the origin in finite time; that is, there exists a time constant such that .
By using the similar method as that in Theorem 6, it can be shown that one by one. Therefore, it can be concluded that the NDAS (1) can be stabilized by the composite controller (35) in a finite time.

In order to facilitate the analysis and design, we assume that every subsystem of differential system (1a) has a corresponding algebraic constraint equation for NDASs (1a) and (1b). Note that, for some practical NDASs, parts of the subsystems of differential system (1a) are allowed to not have algebraic constraint equations. Without loss of generality, we assume that the first subsystems of differential system (1a) have no corresponding algebraic constraint equations; then (1b) becomes

To state the main result of the finite-time stabilization problems of NDAS (1) when the algebraic system (1b) is in the form of (38), the following two Assumptions which can be seen as modified versions of Assumptions 2 and 4, respectively, are needed.

Assumption 2 . There are constants and such that

where and are defined in Assumption 2, and is a known function.

Assumption 4 . There exist a positive constant and a function such that and

Similar to the analysis of Remark 5, it is easy to show that the following conclusion holds: if Assumption holds, then there exists a function such that

Based on Assumptions and , in the same lines of the proof of Theorems 6 and 12, the following results can be obtained immediately.

Corollary 13. Consider NDASs (1a) and (1b) without external disturbance; if Assumptions 2 and 4 hold, then under the feedback control law (26) the corresponding closed-loop system is finite-time stable.

Corollary 14. Consider NDASs (1a) and (1b) subject to the disturbance generated by the exogenous system (2); if Assumptions 2 and 4 hold, then the composite controller (35) will stabilize system (1) in finite time.

Remark 15. For simplicity, so far we have assumed that , where and represent even and odd integers, respectively, such that will be odd in both denominator and numerator. In the case when , where and are arbitrary real positive numbers, inspired by [38, 46], we define the function to preserve the sign of its variable in the homogeneous finite-time disturbance observer and control law, such that it is still possible to get the same result.

Remark 16. When there are no nonlinear algebraic constraints, the NDASs in (1a) and (1b) reduce to the following normal nonlinear system with disturbance:

In the absence of disturbance, the finite-time stabilization problem of system (42) has been considered in [33, 46] under different assumptions on nonlinear terms. In this regard, the obtained results in this paper can be viewed as an extension of existing results on normal nonlinear systems to NDASs. Note that, in the presence of disturbance, the proposed stabilization methods [33, 46] can only ensure that the states of the closed-loop system converge to a neighborhood of the origin. However, the obtained composite control method in this paper can effectively enhance the disturbance rejection ability and control accuracy of the system.

Remark 17 (nominal performance recovery ability). In the absence of disturbance, it is derived from the observer error system (33) that and if the initial values of the observer states are selected as and . In this condition, the proposed composite controller (35) reduces to the nominal FTC law (26), which demonstrates that the proposed approach does not sacrifice the nominal performance.

4. Simulations

In this section, we will use a numerical example to illustrate the validity of the proposed composite feedback stabilization approach.

Example 18. Consider the following inherent NDAS:

where the disturbance is generated by exogenous system (2) with , , , and .
First of all, it is worth mentioning that NDAS (43) is a nonsmooth system because the system contains a nonlinear term . Obviously, the stabilization method proposed by [27] does not apply to system (43) because the nonlinear term does not meet Lipschitz condition. The recent work [9] proposed a finite-time stabilization for nonsmooth nonlinear Hamiltonian descriptor system. However, the approach proposed by [9] does not apply to system (43) too. How to design a finite-time controller for system (43), there are no existing results to utilise.
However, if we choose , , , and , then , . It is easy to show that . According to the nonlinear algebraic constraint , we have and . Thus, . Furthermore, by using Lemma A.6, it can be easily derived that . Therefore, Assumptions and are satisfied. In the absence of external disturbance, according to Corollary 13, the NDAS (43) can be stabilized by the following FTC law:

with appropriate gains and .
In the presence of disturbance, according to Lemma 10 and Corollary 14, the following CFTC is designed for system (43):

where is the estimation of the external disturbance generated by the CFTDO

where , , and are appropriate positive constants and with .
To evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed control approach, FTC (44) and CFTC (45) for system (42) with disturbance are employed in the simulation for the purpose of comparison studies. The control parameters of the two control methods are listed in Table 1. The initial values of system (43) and observer (46) are chosen as and , respectively. The simulation results are shown in Figures 2 and 3.
It is observed from Figure 2 that the external disturbance can be estimated quickly by the proposed CFTDO (46). The states responses of the NDAS (43) under the two different controls (44) and (45) are shown in Figures 3(a)–3(c), which demonstrate that the FTC law (44) fails to stabilize NDAS (43), while the composite controller (45) can make the states of NDAS (43) converge to the origin precisely. The control signals of the two different controls (44) and (45) are given in Figure 3(d).

Table 1: Control parameters for the numerical Example (43).

Controllers
Parameters

FTC:
,

CFTC:
, , , , ,

(a)

(b)

Figure 2: Response curves of disturbance and its estimation (a) and estimation error (b).

(a)

(b)

(c)

(d)

Figure 3: The response curves of system (43) under two different control FTC (44) (dotted line) and CFTC (45) (solid line). (a) State , (b) state , (c) state , and (d) control input.

Example 19. Consider nonlinear circuit system displayed in Figure 4, where a dc source with voltage is connected in series to a linear resistor, a linear inductor, and a nonlinear capacitor with a characteristic . Similar nonlinear capacitors are considered in [1, 22].
This circuit may be easily shown to admit the charge-flux description

where is the magnetic flux in the inductor.
Define , and . Assume that the system is subject to matched disturbance which is generated by exogenous system (2) with , , and let , , , and ; then system (47) can be represented by the following system:

However, if we choose , , and ; then , . According to the nonlinear algebraic constraint , we have and . Thus, . Furthermore, it is easy to show that with . Therefore, Assumptions and are satisfied. In the absence of external disturbance, according to Corollary 13, the NDAS (43) can be stabilized by the following FTC law:

where is the estimation of the external disturbance generated by the CFTDO

where , , , and are appropriate positive constants, and , with .
The simulation is conducted . The response curves of the closed-loop systems (48)-(49) are shown in Figure 5.

Figure 4: Nonlinear RLC circuit.

(a)

(b)

(c)

Figure 5: Response curves of the closed-loop systems (48)-(49).

5. Conclusion

The problem of composite finite-time stabilization problem for a class of NDASs subject to external disturbance has been considered. Homogeneous system theory and the adding a power integrator technique have been adopted to the analysis and design of continuous finite-time disturbance observer and composite controller. It has been shown that the proposed composite controller not only can stabilize the NDAS with disturbance in finite time, but also has the nominal performance recovery ability. The validity of the proposed control approach has been demonstrated by two examples.

Appendix

A. Preliminaries

In this section, we introduce some definitions and lemmas which will be used throughout the paper.

Definition A.1 (see [28]). Consider a system

where is non-Lipschitz continuous on an neighborhood of the origin in . The equilibrium of (A.1) is (locally) finite-time stable if there are an open neighborhood of the origin and a function , such that every solution trajectory of system (A.1) starting from the initial point is well defined and unique in forward time for , and . Here is called the convergence time (of the initial state ). The equilibrium of system (A.1) is finite time stable if it is Lyapunov stable and finite-time convergent. If , the origin is a globally finite-time stable equilibrium.

Lemma A.2 (see [28]). Assume that there exists a continuous function such that the following conditions hold:

(i) is positive definite.(ii)There exist real numbers and and an open neighborhood of the origin such that .

Then the origin is a finite-time stable equilibrium of system (A.1) and the finite convergence time satisfies . If and is proper, then the origin is a globally finite time stable equilibrium of (A.1).

Definition A.3 (see [42]). For fixed coordinates and real numbers ,

(i)the dilation , with being called as the weights of the coordinates (for simplicity of notation, we define dilation weight );(ii)a function is said to be homogeneous of degree if there is a real number such that ;(iii)a vector field is said to be homogeneous of degree if there is a real number such that for ;(iv)a homogeneous -norm is defined as , for a constant .

Lemma A.4 (see [28]). Suppose is a homogeneous function of degree with respect to the dilation weight . Then the following holds:

(i) is homogeneous of degree with being the homogeneous weight of .(ii)There is a constant such that . Moreover, if is positive definite, for a constant .

Lemma A.5 (see [34]). The system

with , is finite-time input-to-state stable (FTISS), if it has an FTISS-Lyapunov function.

Lemma A.6 (see [45]). For any positive constants and any real-valued function , the following inequality holds:

Lemma A.7 (see [38]). Let and be real-valued functions; then, for a constant the following inequalities hold:

B. The Proofs of Propositions

The proof of Propositions and are given in this section. For the sake of simplicity, here we will use a generic constant which exemplifies any limited positive constant value and represents smooth, nonnegative function, either of which may be implicitly changed in different places.

Proof of Proposition 7. Note that ; based on Assumption 4, inequality (7), and the famous inequality , we have for

By using (B.1) and Assumption 2, it follows from (3) that

By (B.2) and Lemma A.6, it can be proved that there exists a function such that

Proof of Proposition 8. By the definition of and Lemma A.7, it can be shown that for

By the definition of , we have . It follows that

By Assumptions 2 and 4, it is easy to know that is homogeneous of degree with respect to the dilation weights . Based on Assumption 4, the definition of in (15), and Lemma A.6, it can be proved that

Combining (B.5) with (B.6) leads to

By Lemma A.6, (B.4) together with (B.7) gives

where is a smooth strictly positive function.

Competing Interests

The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

Acknowledgments

This work is supported by the Natural Science Foundation of China (61540068 and 61503122), Foundation of Henan Department of Science and Technology (162300410087), and Foundation of Henan Education Committee (12B120004).

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