UC Santa Cruz

This paper deals with robust minimum-time control of a class of asymptotically null-controllable with bounded input planar systems. A hybrid controller is proposed to robustly achieve global finite time stability of a set of points wherein the plant state is zero. The resulting controller provides time optimal response from initial conditions in a certain subset of the state space, and finite time convergence elsewhere. Finally, the effectiveness of the proposed methods is demonstrated in a numerical example.