On the convergence of linear switched systems

International audienceThis paper investigates sufficient conditions for the convergence to zero of the trajectories of linear switched systems. We provide a collection of results that use weak dwell-time, dwell-time, strong dwell-time, permanent and persistent excitation hypothesis. The obtained results are shown to be tight by counterexample. Finally, we apply our result to the three-cell converter

Convergence Rate of Nonlinear Switched Systems

This paper is concerned with the convergence rate of the solutions of nonlinear switched systems. We first consider a switched system which is asymptotically stable for a class of inputs but not for all inputs. We show that solutions corresponding to that class of inputs converge arbitrarily slowly to the origin. Then we consider analytic switched systems for which a common weak quadratic Lyapunov function exists. Under two different sets of assumptions we provide explicit exponential convergence rates for inputs with a fixed dwell-time

Geometry of the Limit Sets of Linear Switched Systems

The paper is concerned with asymptotic stability properties of linear switched systems. Under the hypothesis that all the subsystems share a non strict quadratic Lyapunov function, we provide a large class of switching signals for which a large class of switched systems are asymptotically stable. For this purpose we define what we call non chaotic inputs, which generalize the different notions of inputs with dwell time. Next we turn our attention to the behaviour for possibly chaotic inputs. To finish we give a sufficient condition for a system composed of a pair of Hurwitz matrices to be asymptotically stable for all inputs

Stability of uniformly bounded switched systems and Observability

This paper mainly deals with switched linear systems defined by a pair of Hurwitz matrices that share a common but not strict quadratic Lyapunov function. Its aim is to give sufficient conditions for such a system to be GUAS.We show that this property of being GUAS is equivalent to the uniform observability on $[0,+\infty)$ of a bilinear system defined on a subspace whose dimension is in most cases much smaller than the dimension of the switched system.Some sufficient conditions of uniform asymptotic stability are then deduced from the equivalence theorem, and illustrated by examples.The results are partially extended to nonlinear analytic systems

Interval observers design for continuous-time linear switched systems

International audienceThis paper is devoted to investigate interval observers design for linear switched systems. The considered systems are subject to disturbances which are assumed to be unknown but bounded. First, observer gains are computed to ensure the stability of the estimation error. Then, under some changes of coordinates an interval observer is designed. Efficiency of the proposed method is demonstrated through a numerical example