Robust stabilization of time-delay discrete switched affine systems via a predictive switching control law

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The paper provides a constructive mechanism for stabilizing uncertain discrete switched systems when the control is a finite-valued switching signal and the selected mode is applied with a one-step delay. Its transferable asset is a predictive mode-selection rule combined with mode- and phase-dependent quadratic Lyapunov functions, yielding convergence to a robust limit cycle rather than requiring convergence to a fixed point. A direct neural-network analogue is a finite-mode optimizer whose candidate updates are predicted one step ahead, with the mode chosen by minimizing a Lyapunov score around a learned or prescribed optimizer cycle. The robust polytopic uncertainty treatment suggests estimating local optimizer-dynamics uncertainty and rejecting candidate updates whenever the worst-case Lyapunov decrease condition is violated.