Stability and Bifurcations of Planar Switched Linear and Homogeneous Systems

We prove new necessary and sufficient conditions for uniform asymptotic stability under arbitrary switching of two-dimensional switched homogeneous systems with a finite number of subsystems using a worst-case switching analysis. The novelty of our approach is in its explicit nature, which allows us to then study in detail the codimension-one bifurcations of stability of the origin in switched linear systems and further conclude new local and global stability results for certain classes of nonlinear switched systems. In particular, we formulate an analogue of Lyapunov's indirect method for $\mathcal{C}^{1}$ switched nonlinear systems and derive a new method for determining the existence of a bounded basin of attraction for a class of switched nonlinear systems.