Robust and structural ergodicity analysis of stochastic biomolecular networks involving synthetic antithetic integral controllers

The concepts of ergodicity and output controllability have been shown to be fundamental for the analysis and synthetic design of closed-loop stochastic reaction networks, as exemplified by the use of antithetic integral feedback controllers. In [Gupta, Briat Khammash, PLoS Comput. Biol., 2014], some ergodicity and output controllability conditions for unimolecular and certain classes of bimolecular reaction networks were obtained and formulated through linear programs. To account for context dependence, these conditions were later extended in [Briat & Khammash, CDC, 2016] to reaction networks with uncertain rate parameters using simple and tractable, yet potentially conservative, methods. Here we develop some exact theoretical methods for verifying, in a robust setting, the original ergodicity and output controllability conditions based on algebraic and polynomial techniques. Some examples are given for illustration. (C) 2017, IFAC (International Federation of Automatic Control) Hosting by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.