Partial stability analysis of nonlinear time-varying impulsive systems

This paper investigates the stability analysis with respect to part of the variables of nonlinear time-varying systems with impulse effect. The approach presented is based on the specially introduced piecewise continuous Lyapunov functions. The Lyapunov stability theorems with respect to part of the variables are generalized in the sense that the time derivatives of the Lyapunov functions are allowed to be indefinite. With the help of the notion of stable functions, asymptotic partial stability, exponential partial stability, input-to-state partial stability (ISPS) and integral input-to-state partial stability (iISPS) are considered. Three numerical examples are provided to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed theoretical results.