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Here, we say that a certain property of a system is robust if it is preserved when
an arbitrary (but sufficiently small) perturbation affects the system. An important
quantity in this respect is then the distance (measured by an appropriate metric)
between the nominal system and the closest perturbed system that does not possess
the mentioned property, this is typically called the radius of the system property.
In this paper, we deal with robustness and distance problems for differential-
algebraic equations (DAEs), with a focus on robust stability and stability radii. Sys-
tems of DAEs, which are also called descriptor systems in the control literature, are
a very convenient modeling concept in various real-life applications such as me-
chanical multibody systems, electrical circuit simulation, chemical reactions, semi-
discretized partial differential equations, and in general for automatically generated
coupled systems, see [12, 39, 47, 63, 68, 84, 85] and the references therein.
DAEs are generalizations of ordinary differential equations (ODEs) in that cer-
tain algebraic equations constrain the dynamical behavior. Since the dynamics of
DAEs is constrained to a set which often is only given implicitly, many theoreti-
cal and numerical difficulties arise, which may lead to a sensitive behavior of the
solution of DAEs to perturbation in the data. The difficulties are characterized by
fundamental notions for DAEs such as regularity, index, solution subspace, or hid-
den constraints, which do not arise for ODEs. These properties may be easily lost
when the data are subject to arbitrarily small perturbations. As a consequence, usu-
ally restrictions to the allowed perturbations have to be made, leading to robustness
questions for DAEs that are very different from those for ODEs.
This paper surveys robustness results for linear DAEs with time-invariant or
time-varying coefficients of the form
E(t)˙x(t) =A(t)x(t) +f(t), (1.1)
on the half-line I =[0, ∞), together with an initial condition
x(t
0
) =x
0
,t
0
∈I. (1.2)
Here we assume that E,A ∈C(I, K
n×n
), and f ∈C(I, K
n
) are sufficiently smooth.
We use the notation C(I, K
n×n
) to denote the space of continuous functions from I
to K
n×n
, where K =R or K =C.
Linear systems of the form (1.1) arise directly in many applications and via lin-
earization around solution trajectories [22]. They describe the local behavior in the
neighborhood of a solution for a general implicit nonlinear system of DAEs
F
t,x(t), ˙x(t)
=0, (1.3)
the constant coefficient case arising in the case of linearization around stationary
solutions.
Definition 1.1 A function x : I →R
n
is called a solution of (1.1)ifx ∈ C
1
(I, R
n
)
and x satisfies (1.1) pointwise. It is called a solution of the initial value problem
(1.1)–(1.2)ifx is a solution of (1.1) and satisfies (1.2). An initial condition (1.2)is
called consistent if the corresponding initial value problem has at least one solution.
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