IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol.51, No.9, 1536-1541, 2006
Compositional contraction analysis of resetting hybrid systems
This note develops sufficient conditions for exponential convergence of resetting hybrid nonlinear dynamical systems. Using nonlinear contraction theory, the analysis first develops a unified formulation of continuous-time and discrete-time nonlinear dynamics based on a differential transition matrix. This yields enhanced dwell-time based conditions for stability of such systems analogous to those existing for switched systems. It turns out that such dwell-time based conditions, unlike their counterparts for switched systems, include arbitrary stability conditions as a special case, and are less conservative and much simpler to verify.
Keywords:hybrid systems;impulsive systems;nonlinear contraction analysis;nonlinear systems;stability;switched systems