Shorten, Robert N. and Ó Cairbre, Fiacre and Curran, Paul
(2000)
On the Dynamic Instability of a Class of Switching System.
IFAC Proceedings Volumes, 33 (28).
pp. 189-194.
ISSN 1474-6670
Abstract
A sufficient condition for the existence of a destabilising switching sequence
for the system x = A(t)x, A(t) E {Al,A2 , ... ,AM}, Ai E lRNXN , where the Ai
are Hurwitz matrices, is that there exists non-negative real constants 0'1,0'2, ... , O'M,
O'j 2: 0, L:f'!1 0'; > 0, such that the matrix pencil L:f'! IO'jAj has at least one
eigenvalue with a positive real part. An informal proof of this result based upon
Floquet theory was presented in (Shorten, 1996; Shorten and Narendra, 1997) . In
this paper we present a rigourous basis for the proof of this result. Further, we use
this result to identify several classes of linear switching systems, which admit the
existence of a destabilising switching sequence. These systems provide insights into
the relationship between the existence of a common quadratic Lyapunov function and
the existence of a destabilising switching sequence for low order systems, as well as
the robustness of a class of switching system that is known to be exponentially stable.
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