Modeling and stability analysis of hybrid dynamical systems based on extended differential Petri nets

In this paper, extended differential Petri nets (EDPNs), a new extension of differential Petri nets (DPNs), is proposed. Compared with the existing extension of DPNs, EDPNs has two improvements: (1) the restriction on the enabling condition that depends on the weight of arc is relaxed, i.e., allow the enabling condition has more general form; (2) the definition is extended for the weight of arc. By these two improvements, EDPNs presents larger flexibility and modeling power than the existing extension of DPNs. Using this model, the stability of hybrid dynamical systems (HDS) is studied. A new Lyapunov’s stability theorem of HDS is given. Furthermore, by using the information of index matrix and a new composite energy function, the stability theorem of linear HDS is obtained.