Quasi-Barabanov semigroups and finiteness of the L2-induced gain for switched linear control systems: Case of full-state observation

Motivated by an open problem posed by J.P. Hespanha we extend the notion of Barabanov norm and extremal trajectory to general classes of switching signals. As a consequence we characterize the finiteness of the L2-induced gain for a large set of switched linear control systems in case of full-state observation in terms of the sign of the generalized spectral radius associated with minimal realizations of the original switched system.