Limit cycles in a class of hybrid dynamical systems (Q1611001)

The paper presents a qualitative analysis of a class of hybrid dynamical systems called switched fluid networks. Such networks are used to model communication, computer, and flexible manufacturing systems. A typical analysis problem is to establish criteria for a regular behavior of a deterministic network. Until now, research on this problem has been mainly focused on stability of equilibria (investigations of limit cycles were mainly confined to specific two-dimensional systems). Here, the existence and stability of limit cycles are established for quite general fluid networks of arbitrary dimension. More precisely, it is shown that for any deterministic flow from a specific class there exists a finite number of limit cycles attracting all the trajectories of the system. The number of cycles is determined. The paper extends some results of the authors [\textit{A. S. Matveev} and \textit{A. V. Savkin}, Qualitative theory of hybrid dynamical systems, Birkhäuser (2000)] obtained for not entirely dynamically routed networks on a special class of completely dynamically routed networks.