Melnikov-type method for a class of hybrid piecewise-smooth systems with impulsive effect and noise excitation: Homoclinic orbits.

The Melnikov method is extended to a class of hybrid piecewise-smooth systems with impulsive effect and noise excitation when an unperturbed system is a piecewise Hamiltonian system with a homoclinic orbit. The homoclinic orbit continuously crosses the first switching manifold and transversally jumps across the second switching manifold by the impulsive effect. The trajectory of the corresponding perturbed system crosses the first switching manifold by applying the reset map describing the impact rule instantaneously. Then, the random Melnikov process of such systems is derived and the criteria for the onset of chaos with or without noise excitation are established. In addition, the complicated dynamics of concrete piecewise-smooth systems with or without noise excitation under the reset maps, impulsive effect, and non-autonomous periodic and damping perturbations are investigated by this extended method and numerical simulations.