Abstract
In this paper the asymptotic behaviour of a class of bilinear systems is studied. The asymptotic set is defined, and is then characterized through a nested sequence of closed and attractive sets. It is shown to be the smallest closed and attractive set. Moreover, after introducing the notion of strong invariance, the asymptotic set is shown to coincide with the greatest strongly invariant set. These results hold, more generally, for any system whose state transition function is continuous, provided that its state space and input set are compact subsets of finite dimensional spaces.

This publication has 14 references indexed in Scilit: