A Lyapunov-Like Characterization of Asymptotic Controllability
@article{Sontag1983ALC,
title={A Lyapunov-Like Characterization of Asymptotic Controllability},
author={Eduardo Sontag},
journal={SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization},
year={1983},
volume={21},
pages={462-471}
}It is shown that a control system in ${\bf R}^n $ is asymptotically controllable to the origin if and only if there exists a positive definite continuous functional of the states whose derivative can be made negative by appropriate choices of controls.
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