Stability of impulsive time-varying systems and compactness of the operators mapping the input space into the state and output spaces

This paper is concerned with time-varying systems with non-necessarily bounded everywhere continuous time-differentiable time-varying point delays. The delay-free and delayed dynamics are assumed to be time-varying and impulsive, in general, and the external input may also be impulsive. For given bounded initial conditions, the (unique) homogeneous state-trajectory and output trajectory are equivalently constructed from three different auxiliary homogeneous systems, the first one being delay-free and time-invariant, the second one possessing the delay-free dynamics of the current delayed system and the third one being the homogeneous part of the system under study. In this way, the constructed solution trajectories of both the unforced and forced systems are obtained from different (input-state space/output space and state space to output space) operators. The system stability and the compactness of the operators describing the solution trajectories are investigated.     

A new formulation of some discrete-time stochastic-parameter state estimation problems

Linear unbiased full-order state estimation problem for discrete-time models with stochastic parameters and additive finite energy type disturbance signals is reformulated in terms of linear matrix inequalities. Two estimation problems that are considered are the design for mean-square bounded estimation error and the design for the mean-square stochastic version of the suboptimal H_∞ estimator. These two designs are shown to apply to both the estimation with random sensor delay and estimation under observation uncertainty.     

Robust stability criteria for a class of uncertain discrete-time systems with time-varying delay

In this paper, we consider the problem of delay-dependent robust stability of a class of uncertain discrete-time systems with time-varying delay using Lyapunov functional approach. Two categories of time-varying uncertainties are considered for the robust stability analysis: viz., (i) nonlinear perturbations and (ii) norm-bounded uncertainties. In the proposed stability analysis, by exploiting a candidate Lyapunov functional, and using minimal number of slack matrix variables, less conservative stability criteria are developed in terms of linear matrix inequalities (LMIs) for computing the maximum allowable bound of the delay-range, within which, the uncertain system under consideration remains asymptotically stable in the sense of Lyapunov. The effectiveness of the proposed stability criteria is demonstrated using standard numerical examples.     

A novel approach to exponential stability of nonlinear non-autonomous difference equations with variable delays

In this paper, by using a novel approach, we first prove a new generalization of discrete-type Halanay inequality. Based on our new generalized inequality, a novel criterion for the exponential stability of a certain class of nonlinear non-autonomous difference equations is proposed. Numerical examples are given to illustrate the effectiveness of the obtained results.     

Cucker–Smale flocking under rooted leadership and time-varying heterogeneous delays

In this paper, a Cucker–Smale model with time-varying heterogeneous delays in the communication process is investigated, where the delay on each communication link is time-varying and independent of other communication links. A general update rule based on the distance between agents is used to determine the edge weights of the communication network. The method of constructing augmented system is used so that the system stability is transformed into a product convergence problem of time-varying sub-stochastic matrices equivalently. By analyzing this convergence problem, a sufficient condition is established to achieve flocking, which relates to the initial states, the structure of communication network and the upper bound of time delays.     

变时滞细胞神经网络的全局指数稳定性研究

本文采用Lyapunov-Krasovskii泛函方法对一类变时滞细胞神经网络的全局指数稳定性进行了研究,得出了一些关于DCNN全局指数稳定性的充分条件。     

New Robust Model Predictive Control for Uncertain Systems with Input Constraints Using Relaxation Matrices

In this paper, we propose a new robust model predictive control (MPC) method for time-varying uncertain systems with input constraints. We formulate the problem as a minimization of the worst-case finite-horizon cost function subject to a new sufficient condition for cost monotonicity. The proposed MPC technique uses relaxation matrices to derive a less conservative terminal inequality condition. The relaxation matrices improve feasibility and system performance. The optimization problem is solved by semidefinite programming involving linear matrix inequalities (LMIs). A numerical example shows the effectiveness of the proposed method. The authors thank the associate editor and two anonymous referees for careful reading and useful suggestions.     

Output feedback guaranteed cost control of uncertain linear discrete systems with interval time-varying delays

This paper deals with output feedback guaranteed cost control problem for a general class of uncertain linear discrete delay systems, where the state and the observation output are subjected to interval time-varying delay. The proposed output feedback controller uses the observation measurement to exponentially stabilize the closed-loop system and guarantee an adequate level of system performance. By constructing a set of augmented Lyapunov–Krasovskii functionals, a delay-dependent condition for the robust output feedback guaranteed cost control is established in terms of linear matrix inequalities (LMIs). Three numerical examples are provided to demonstrate the efficiency of the proposed method.     

Stabilization analysis for discrete-time systems with time delay

The stabilization problem for a class of discrete-time systems with time-varying delay is investigated. By constructing an augmented Lyapunov function, some sufficient conditions guaranteeing exponential stabilization are established in forms of linear matrix inequality (LMI) technique. When norm-bounded parameter uncertainties appear in the delayed discrete-time system, a delay-dependent robust exponential stabilization criterion is also presented. All of the criteria obtained in this paper are strict linear matrix inequality conditions, which make the controller gain matrix can be solved directly. Three numerical examples are provided to demonstrate the effectiveness and improvement of the derived results.     

A numerical solution for the simultaneous disturbance decoupling and row-by-row decoupling problem

The numerical computation of the simultaneous disturbance decoupling and row-by-row decoupling problem is considered. Based on a condensed form for the system matrices the solvability of the simultaneous disturbance decoupling and row-by-row decoupling problem is reduced to the verification of an integer equality and the nonsingularity of a lower-dimensional constant matrix. The condensed form we use is computed using only orthogonal transformations, which can be implemented in a numerically stable way. Hence, it leads directly to an effective numerical method for solving the disturbance decoupling and row-by-row decoupling problem using existing tools such as LAPACK and Matlab. Our result complements existing geometric and structural approaches which are of a theoretical nature and are not suitable for numerical computation.     

Real-time distributed control: A fuzzy and model predictive control approach for a nonlinear problem

Nowadays the study of faults and their consequences has become an issue for highly safety critical computer network systems. How to bound the effects of a fault and how to tackle them in a dynamic system is still an open field. Here, an approach to studying this problem is presented as a hybrid strategy. The use of a multi-model technique from the point of view of real-time systems and intelligent control structure is described, in order to accomplish one challenge: to overcome the problem of the presence of local faults and the respective time delays within a real-time distributed system. This approach is pursued as a reconfigurable strategy according to communication time delays within a real-time distributed system. In fact, it is pursued as a reconfigurable strategy according to communication delays and local faults where the control strategy is modified from several perspectives.     

On robustly exponential stability of uncertain neutral systems with time-varying delays and nonlinear perturbations

The issue of robustly exponential stability for uncertain neutral-type systems is considered in this paper. The uncertainties are nonlinear and the delays are time-varying. In terms of a linear matrix inequality (LMI), the new sufficient stability condition with delay dependence is presented. The model transformation and bounding techniques for cross terms are avoided based on an integral inequality. Two illustrative examples are proposed to show the effectiveness of our method.     

On the uniform exponential stability of a wide class of linear time-delay systems

This paper deals with the global uniform exponential stability independent of delay of time-delay linear and time-invariant systems subject to point and distributed delays for the initial conditions being continuous real functions except possibly on a set of zero measure of bounded discontinuities. It is assumed that the delay-free system as well as an auxiliary one are globally uniformly exponentially stable and globally uniform exponential stability independent of delay, respectively. The auxiliary system is typically a part of the overall dynamics of the delayed system but not necessarily the isolated undelayed dynamics as usually assumed in the literature. Since there is a great freedom in setting such an auxiliary system, the obtained stability conditions are very useful in a wide class of practical applications.     

Existence of an exponential periodic attractor of a class of impulsive differential equations with time-varying delays

By using the continuation theorem due to Mawhin and Gaines, some analysis techniques and the Lyapunov functional method, the sufficient conditions ensuring the existence of an exponential periodic attractor of a class of impulsive differential equations with time-varying delays are established. The results are interesting and very different from previously known results [Xia and Wong, 2009 [7]; Tan and Tan, 2009 [19]; Huang et al., 2005 [20]; Liu and Huang, 2006 [22]]. Finally, applications and an example are given to illustrate the effectiveness of the results.