00894nas a2200109   4500008004300000245005300043210005300096520056000149100001800709700002100727856003600748       2007                        en_Ud  00aNearly time optimal stabilizing patchy feedbacks0 aNearly time optimal stabilizing patchy feedbacks3 aWe consider the time optimal stabilization problem for a nonlinear control system $\\\\dot x=f(x,u)$. Let $\\\\tau(y)$ be the minimum time needed to steer the system from the state $y\\\\in\\\\R^n$ to the origin, and call $\\\\A(T)$ the set of initial states that can be steered to the origin in time $\\\\tau(y)\\\\leq T$. Given any $\\\\ve>0$, in this paper we construct a patchy feedback $u=U(x)$ such that every solution of $\\\\dot x=f(x, U(x))$, $x(0)=y\\\\in \\\\A(T)$ reaches an $\\\\ve$-neighborhood of the origin within time $\\\\tau(y)+\\\\ve$.1 aAncona, Fabio1 aBressan, Alberto  uhttp://hdl.handle.net/1963/2185