Improved delay-dependent robust stability criteria for uncertain time delay systems

This paper deals with the robust stability analysis for uncertain systems with time-varying delay. New delay-dependent robust stability criteria of uncertain time-delay systems are proposed by exploiting appropriate Lyapunov functional candidate. These developed results have advantages over some previous ones in that they have fewer matrix variables yet less conservatism, due to the introduction of a method to estimate the upper bound of the derivative of Lyapunov functional candidate without ignoring the additional useful terms. Numerical examples are given to demonstrate the effectiveness and the advantage of the proposed method.     

Novel robust stability criteria for uncertain systems with time-varying delay

This paper is concerned with the delay-dependent stability and robust stability criteria for linear systems with time-varying delay and norm-bounded uncertainties. Through constructing a general form of Lyapunov–Krasovskii functional, and using integral inequalities, some slack matrices and newly established convex combination condition in the calculation, the delay-dependent stability criteria are derived in terms of linear matrix inequalities. Numerical examples are given to illustrate the improvement on the conservatism of the delay bound over some reported results in the literature.     

Improved delay-dependent stability criterion for neural networks with time-varying delay

In this paper, the problem of delay-dependent asymptotic stability criterion for neural networks with time-varying delay has been considered. A new class of Lyapunov functional which contains a triple-integral term is constructed to derive some new delay-dependent stability criteria. The obtained criteria are less conservative because free-weighting matrices method and a convex optimization approach are considered. Finally, numerical examples are given to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.     

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.     

Dissipativity analysis for singular systems with time-varying delays

This paper is concerned with the dissipativity analysis problem for singular systems with time-varying delays. A delay-dependent criterion is established to guarantee the dissipativity of the underlying systems using the delay partitioning technique. All the results given in this paper are not only dependent upon the time delay, but also dependent upon the number of delay partitions. The effectiveness and the reduced conservatism of the derived results are demonstrated by two illustrative examples.     

Improved stability criteria for time-varying delayed T-S fuzzy systems via delay partitioning approach

This paper focuses on the stability analysis for uncertain Takagi-Sugeno (T-S) fuzzy systems with interval time-varying delay. The uncertainties of system parameter matrices are assumed to be time-varying and norm-bounded. Some new Lyapunov-Krasovskii functionals (LKFs) are constructed by nonuniformly dividing the whole delay interval into multiple segments and choosing different Lyapunov functionals to different segments in the LKFs. By employing these LKFs, some new delay-derivative-dependent stability criteria are established for the nominal and uncertain T-S fuzzy systems in a convex way. These stability criteria are derived that depend on both the upper and lower bounds of the time derivative of the delay. By employing the new delay partitioning approach, the obtained stability criteria are stated in terms of linear matrix inequality (LMI). They are equivalent or less conservative while involving less decision variables than the existing results. Finally, numerical examples are given to illustrate the effectiveness and reduced conservatism of the proposed results.     

Robust reliable stabilization of uncertain switched neutral systems with delayed switching

This paper investigates the problem of robust reliable control for a class of uncertain switched neutral systems under asynchronous switching, where the switching instants of the controller experience delays with respect to those of the system and the parameter uncertainties are assumed to be norm-bounded. A state feedback controller is proposed to guarantee exponential stability and reliability for switched neutral systems, and the dwell time approach is utilized for the stability analysis and controller design. A numerical example is given to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.     

Absolute stability criteria for a class of nonlinear singular systems with time delay

This paper deals with the problem of absolute stability for a class of time-delay singular systems with sector-bounded nonlinearity. Both delay-independent and delay-dependent criteria are presented and formulated in the form of linear matrix inequalities (LMIs). Neither model transformation nor a bounding technique for cross-terms, nor a slack variable method is involved in obtaining the stability criteria. Numerical examples are given to show the effectiveness and improvements over some existing results.     

A new augmented Lyapunov-Krasovskii functional approach for stability of linear systems with time-varying delays

This paper proposes improved delay-dependent conditions for asymptotic stability of linear systems with time-varying delays. The proposed method employs a suitable Lyapunov-Krasovskii’s functional for new augmented system. Based on Lyapunov method, delay-dependent stability criteria for the systems are established in terms of linear matrix inequalities (LMIs) which can be easily solved by various optimization algorithms. Three numerical examples are included to show that the proposed method is effective and can provide less conservative results.     

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.     

Robust exponential stability and stabilizability of linear parameter dependent systems with delays

The robust exponential stability and stabilizability problems are addressed in this paper for a class of linear parameter dependent systems with interval time-varying and constant delays. In this paper, restrictions on the derivative of the time-varying delay is not required which allows the time-delay to be a fast time-varying function. Based on the Lyapunov-Krasovskii theory, we derive delay-dependent exponential stability and stabilizability conditions in terms of linear matrix inequalities (LMIs) which can be solved by various available algorithms. Numerical examples are given to illustrate the effectiveness of our theoretical results.     

A delay decomposition approach to stability analysis of neutral systems with time-varying delay

This paper presents novel stability criteria for neutral systems with time-varying delay. By developing a delayed decomposition approach, information of the delayed plant states can be taken into full consideration, and new delay-dependent sufficient stability criteria are obtained in terms of linear matrix inequalities (LMIs). Then, based on the Lyapunov method, delay-dependent stability criteria are devised by taking the relationship between terms in the Leibniz-Newton formula into account. Criteria are derived in terms of LMIs, which can be easily solved by using various convex optimization algorithms. Three illustrative numerical examples are given to show less conservatism of our obtained results and the effectiveness of the proposed method.     

Synchronization stability of general complex dynamical networks with time-varying delays: A piecewise analysis method

The synchronization problem of some general complex dynamical networks with time-varying delays is investigated. Both time-varying delays in the network couplings and time-varying delays in the dynamical nodes are considered. The delays considered in this paper are assumed to vary in an interval, where the lower and upper bounds are known. Based on a piecewise analysis method, the variation interval of the time delay is firstly divided into several subintervals, by checking the variation of the derivative of a Lyapunov function in every subinterval, then the convexity of matrix function method and the free weighting matrix method are fully used in this paper. Some new delay-dependent synchronization stability criteria are derived in the form of linear matrix inequalities. Two numerical examples show that our method can lead to much less conservative results than those in the existing references.     

Stability analysis for continuous system with additive time-varying delays: A less conservative result

This paper presents a less conservative result for stability analysis of continuous-time systems with additive delays by constructing a new Lyapunov-Krasovskii functional and utilizing free matrix variables in approximating certain integral quadratic terms in obtaining the stability condition in terms of linear matrix inequalities. Numerical example is provided to show the effectiveness of the proposed method compared to some recent results.     

Improved stability analysis on delayed neural networks with linear fractional uncertainties

The paper is concerned with robust stability for generalized neural networks (GNNs) with both interval time-varying delay and time-varying distributed delay. Through partitioning the time-delay, choosing one augmented Lyapunov-Krasovskii functional, employing free-weighting matrix method and convex combination, the sufficient conditions are obtained to guarantee the robust stability of the concerned systems. These stability criteria are presented in terms of linear matrix inequalities (LMIs) and can be easily checked. Finally, three numerical examples are given to demonstrate the effectiveness and reduced conservatism of the obtained results.     

Robust stabilization for a class of uncertain dynamical systems with time delay

In this paper, a new and simple approach whereby we derive several sufficient conditions on robust stabilizability for a class of uncertain dynamical systems with time delay is presented. Some analytical methods and the Bellman-Gronwall inequality are employed to investigate these sufficient conditions. The notable features of the results obtained are their simplicity in testing the stability of uncertain dynamical systems with time delay and their clarity in giving insight into system analysis. Finally, several numerical examples are given to demonstrate the utilization of the results.The authors would like to acknowledge the many helpful comments provided by the reviewer. Particularly, in the light of these comments, the proof of Theorem 3.1 has been considerably shortened.     

Robust stabilization of uncertain linear dynamical systems with time-varying delay

In this paper, the problem of the robust stabilization for a class of uncertain linear dynamical systems with time-varying delay is considered. By making use of an algebraic Riccati equation, we derive some sufficient conditions for robust stability of time-varying delay dynamical systems with unstructured or structured uncertainties. In our approach, the only restriction on the delay functionh(t) is the knowledge of its upper boundh ^–. Some analytical methods are employed to investigate these stability conditions. Since these conditions are independent of the delay, our results are also applicable to systems with perturbed time delay. Finally, a numerical example is given to illustrate the use of the sufficient conditions developed in this paper.     

Delay-dependent stability for 2D systems with time-varying delay subject to state saturation in the Roesser model

This paper addresses the problem of delay-dependent stability of 2D systems with time-varying delay subject to state saturation in the Roesser model. By introducing diagonally dominant matrices, new delay-dependent conditions are obtained in terms of linear matrix inequalities (LMIs) where the lower and upper delay bounds along horizontal and vertical directions, respectively, are known. numerical examples are provided to demonstrate the proposed results.     

LMI-based criteria for stability of high-order neural networks with time-varying delay

This paper investigates the stability of a class of high-order neural networks with time-varying delay, which can be considered as an expansion of Hopfield neural networks and is seldom considered in the literature. Based on the Lyapunov stability theory and linear matrix inequality (LMI) technique, sufficient conditions guaranteeing the global exponential stability of the equilibrium point are presented. Two examples are given to show the effectiveness of the proposed conditions. The obtained results are also shown to be different from and more general than existing ones.