Characterizations of Input-to-State Stability for Systems With Multiple Invariant Sets

We generalize the theory of Input-to-State Stability (ISS) and of its characterizations by means of Lyapunov dissipation inequalities to the study of systems admitting invariant sets, which are not necessarily stable in the sense of Lyapunov but admit a suitable hierarchical decomposition. It is the latter which allows to greatly extend the class of systems to which ISS theory can be applied, allowing in a unified treatment to deal with oscillators in Euclidean coordinates, almost globally asymptotically stable systems on manifolds, systems with multiple equilibria in R <sup xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">n</sup> just to name a few.