Stabilization for nonlinear systems via a limited capacity communication channel with data packet dropout.

This paper addresses the stabilization problem for a class of nonlinear systems. It is assumed that the controller can only receive the transmitted sequence of finite coded signals via a limited digital communication channel. Both state and output feedback coder-decoder-controller procedures are proposed. Stabilization conditions involving the size of coding alphabet, the sampling period, system state growth rate and data packet dropout rate are obtained. Finally, an example is given to illustrate the design procedures and effectiveness of the proposed results. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]