A Tutorial Overview
This website provides a tutorial overview of contraction theory for nonlinear stability analysis and control synthesis of deterministic and stochastic systems, with an emphasis on deriving formal robustness and stability guarantees for various learning-based control problems.
This site is maintained by Soon-Jo Chung (sjchung@caltech.edu) and Jean-Jacques Slotine (jjs@mit.edu) with help from Hiroyasu Tsukamoto (htsukamoto@caltech.edu).
The original paper that derives contraction theory for nonlinear incremental stability analysis
A tutorial paper on utilizing contraction theory for learning-based control with formal robustness and stability guarantees
S. Singh (Google), H. Tsukamoto (Caltech), B. Lopez (UCLA), S.-J. Chung (Caltech), J.-J. Slotine (MIT)
I. R. Manchester (U of Sydney), M. Revay (U of Sydney), R. Wang (U of Sydney)