Monotonic Reach Control on Polytopes

Abstract

The technical note studies the problem of making the trajectories of an affine system defined on a polytopic state space reach a prescribed facet of the polytope in finite time without first leaving the polytope. The focus is on solvability by continuous piecewise affine feedback, and we formulate a variant of the problem in which trajectories exit in a monotonic sense. This allows to obtain necessary and sufficient conditions for solvability in certain geometric situations.