Stability of large-scale systems with saturating actuators

This paper is concerned with the stability problem of a large-scale system made of J subsystems. Each subsystem contains a saturating actuator, a linear time-invariant plant, and a linear time-invariant controller. A sufficient stability condition is given for the large-scale system with saturating actuators and an algorithm for synthesizing the stabilizing controllers is proposed. The plant of each subsystem is not constrainted to be stable and/or minimum-phase.