Mean Escape Time of Switched Riccati Differential Equations

Abstract: Riccati differential equations is the class of first-order and quadratic ordinary differential equations and has various applications in the systems and control theory. In this paper, we analyze a switched Riccati differential equation that is driven by a Poisson-like stochastic signal. We specifically focus on the computation of the mean escape time of the switched Riccati differential equation. The contribution of this paper is twofold. We first show that, under the assumption that the subsystems described as a deterministic Riccati differential equation escape in finite time regardless of its initial state, the mean escape time of the switched Riccati differential equation admits a power series expression. In order to further expand the applicability of this result, we then present an approximative formula for computing the escape time of deterministic Riccati differential equations. We present numerical simulations to illustrate the obtained results.