  In this paper, we present a theoretical analysis of the model reduction
algorithm for linear switched systems. This algorithm is a reminiscence of the
balanced truncation method for linear parameter varying systems. Specifically
in this paper, we provide a bound on the approximation error in L2 norm for
continuous-time and l2 norm for discrete-time linear switched systems. We
provide a system theoretic interpretation of grammians and their singular
values. Furthermore, we show that the performance of bal- anced truncation
depends only on the input-output map and not on the choice of the state-space
representation. For a class of stable discrete-time linear switched systems (so
called strongly stable systems), we define nice controllability and nice
observability grammians, which are genuinely related to reachability and
controllability of switched systems. In addition, we show that quadratic
stability and LMI estimates of the L2 and l2 gains depend only on the
input-output map.
