Willems first introduced the concept of dissipativity in systems theory to describe dynamical systems by input-output properties. Considering a dynamical system described by its state 𝑥(𝑡), its input 𝑢(𝑡) and its output 𝑦(𝑡), the input-output correlation is given a supply rate 𝑤(𝑢(𝑡),𝑦(𝑡)). A system is said to be dissipative with respect to a supply rate if there exists a continuously differentiable storage function 𝑉(𝑥(𝑡)) such that 𝑉(0)=0, 𝑉(𝑥(𝑡))≥0 and𝑉˙(𝑥(𝑡))≤𝑤(𝑢(𝑡),𝑦(𝑡)). | Willems first introduced the concept of dissipativity in systems theory to describe dynamical systems by input-output properties. Considering a dynamical system described by its state 𝑥(𝑡), its input 𝑢(𝑡) and its output 𝑦(𝑡), the input-output correlation is given a supply rate 𝑤(𝑢(𝑡),𝑦(𝑡)). A system is said to be dissipative with respect to a supply rate if there exists a continuously differentiable storage function 𝑉(𝑥(𝑡)) such that 𝑉(0)=0, 𝑉(𝑥(𝑡))≥0 and𝑉˙(𝑥(𝑡))≤𝑤(𝑢(𝑡),𝑦(𝑡)). |