Robust stability of a class of hybrid nonlinear systems

We analyze the discrete behavior to identify all kinds of cycles of hybrid nonlinear systems and then study the continuous behavior along each kind of cycle. Based on these analysis, we construct some continuous functions to bound Lyapunov functions along all subsystems and identify a subsequence of time points where the Lyapunov functions are non-increasing. We use these results to derive some new sufficient conditions for the robust stability of a class of hybrid nonlinear systems with polytopic uncertainties. These conditions do not require the Lyapunov functions to be non-increasing along each subsystem nor the whole sequence of the switching. Furthermore, they do not require the knowledge of continuous trajectory.