Poincaré-Bendixson Theorem for Hybrid Systems

William Clark, Anthony Bloch, Leonardo Colombo

Published 2018-01-27Version 1

The Poincar\'e-Bendixson theorem plays an important role in the study of the qualitative behavior of dynamical systems on the plane; it describes the structure of limit sets in such systems. We prove a version of the Poincar\'e-Bendixson Theorem for two dimensional hybrid dynamical systems and describe a method for computing the derivative of the Poincar\'e return map, a useful object for the stability analysis of hybrid systems. We also prove a Poincar\'e-Bendixson Theorem for a class of one dimensional hybrid dynamical systems.