New absolute stability criteria for uncertain Lur’e systems with time-varying delays

This paper deals with absolute stability of uncertain Lur’e systems with time-varying delay. By introducing a Lyapunov–Krasovskii functional related to a second-order Bessel–Legendre inequality, some absolute stability criteria are derived for the system under study. Different from some existing approaches, a remarkable feature of this paper is that the time-derivative of the Lyapunov–Krasovskii functional is estimated by a linear function rather than a quadratic function on the time-varying delay, thanks to the introduction of four extra vectors. As a result, the resulting absolute stability criteria are of less conservatism than some existing ones, which is demonstrated through three examples.     

Stability analysis for linear time-delay systems using new inequality based on the second-order derivative

This paper studies the stability problem of linear time-varying delay system. Firstly, a double integral inequality based on the second-order derivative is proposed in this paper. Secondly, novel Lyapunov–Krasovskii functional consisting of integral terms based on the second-order derivative is constructed to enhance the feasible region of delay-dependent stability. Based on the two aspects, new delay-dependent stability criteria which guarantee the asymptotic stability of linear systems with time-varying delay are given in the form of linear matrix inequality (LMI). Finally, several numerical examples are given to show the advantages of the proposed methods.     

Stabilization criteria for neutral time delay systems with saturating actuators

This paper discusses the problems of delay-dependent stability and stabilization of neutral saturating actuator systems with constant or time-varying delays. The problems of stabilization for neutral saturating actuator system with time-varying delay and parameter from the presented results, the condition obtained here does not need derivative information of the delay time and thus can be used to analyze the stabilization problem for a class of saturating actuator systems with time-varying delay, which is bounded but arbitrarily fast time-varying. Using the model transformation and quasi-convex optimization problem, we derive delay-dependent conditions for the stability of systems in terms of the linear matrix inequality. The stabilization conditions are formulated as linear matrix inequalities (LMIs) which can be solved by convex optimization algorithm. Moreover, the stability criteria are extended to design a stabilizing state feedback controller. Numerical examples show that the results obtained in this paper significantly improve the estimate of stability limit over some existing results reported previously in the literature.     

New fractional-order integral inequalities: Application to fractional-order systems with time-varying delay

In this paper, the problem of delay-dependent stability analysis of fractional-order systems with time-varying delay is investigated. First, a class of novel fractional-order integral inequalities for quadratic functions by constructing appropriate auxiliary functions is proposed, which has been proven to be useful in analyzing fractional-order systems with time-varying delay. Based on these proposed inequalities, the Lyapunov–Krasovskii functions are designed to deal with the time-varying delay terms, reducing the conservatism of the stability criteria. Furthermore, delay-dependent criteria are derived to achieve asymptotic stability of fractional-order systems with time-varying delay. Finally, two examples are provided to illustrate the effectiveness and feasibility of the proposed stability criteria.     

Reachable set estimation for linear systems with time-varying delay and polytopic uncertainties

This study is concerned with the problem of reachable set estimation for linear systems with time-varying delays and polytopic parameter uncertainties. Our target is to find an ellipsoid that contains the state trajectory of linear system as small as possible. Specifically, first, in order to utilize more information about the state variables, the RSE problem for time-delay systems is solved based on an augmented Lyapunov-Krasovskii functional. Second, by dividing the time-varying delay into two non-uniformly subintervals, more general delay-dependent stability criteria for the existence of a desired ellipsoid are derived. Third, the integral interval is decomposed in the same way to estimate the bounds of integral terms more exactly. Fourth, an optimized integral inequality is used to deal with the integral terms, which is based on distinguished Wirtinger integral inequality and Reciprocally convex combination inequality. This can be regard as a new method in the delay systems. Finally, three numerical examples are presented to demonstrate the effectiveness and merits of the theoretical results.     

Robust exponential stability for uncertain time-varying delay systems with delay dependence

This paper investigates the exponential stability problem for uncertain time-varying delay systems. Based on the Lyapunov-Krasovskii functional method, delay-dependent stability criteria have been derived in terms of a matrix inequality (LMI) which can be easily solved using efficient convex optimization algorithms. These results are shown to be less conservative than those reported in the literature. Four numerical examples are proposed to illustrate the effectiveness of our results.     

Further results on delay-dependent stability criteria of discrete systems with an interval time-varying delay

This paper deals with stability of discrete-time systems with an interval-like time-varying delay. By constructing a novel augmented Lyapunov functional and using an improved finite-sum inequality to deal with some sum-terms appearing in the forward difference of the Lyapunov functional, a less conservative stability criterion is obtained for the system under study if compared with some existing methods. Moreover, as a special case, the stability of discrete-time systems with a constant time delay is also investigated. Three numerical examples show that the derived stability criteria are less conservative and require relatively small number of decision variables.     

Robust stability criteria for uncertain systems with interval time-varying delay based on multi-integral functional approach

This paper is concerned with the robust stability analysis for uncertain systems with interval time-varying delay. In order to make full use of the delay information, a novel Lyapunov–Krasovskii functional (LKF) containing single, double, triple and quadruple integral terms is introduced, and a triple-integral state variable is also used. Then, by using the Wirtinger-based single and double integral inequality, introducing some positive scalars, the derivative of the constructed LKF is estimated more accurately. As a result, some stability criteria are derived, which have less conservatism and decision variables. Numerical examples are also given to show the effectiveness of the proposed method.     

New approaches to stability analysis for time-varying delay systems

In this paper, two new estimation approaches namely delay-dependent-matrix-based (DDMB) reciprocally convex inequality approach and DDMB estimation approach, are introduced for stability analysis of time-varying delay systems. Different from existing estimation techniques with constant matrices, the estimation approaches are with delay-dependent matrices, which can employ more free matrices and utilize more information of both time delay and its derivative. Based on the estimation approaches, less conservative stability criteria with lower computational complexity are derived in the form of linear matrix inequalities (LMIs). Finally, two numerical examples are given to illustrate the advantages of the proposed methods.     

Stability analysis of a class of variable fractional-order uncertain neutral-type systems with time-varying delay

Variable fractional-order (VFO) differential equations are a beneficial tool for describing the nonlinear behavior of complex dynamical phenomena. In comparison with the constant FO derivatives, it describes the memory properties of such systems that can vary in the time domain and spatial location. This article investigates the stability and stabilization of VFO neutral systems in the presence of time-varying structured uncertainties and time-varying delay. FO Lyapunov theorem is adopted to achieve order-dependent and delay-dependent criteria for both nominal and uncertain VFO neutral delay systems. The obtained conditions are given in respect of linear matrix inequality by designing a delayed state feedback controller. Simulations verify the main results.     

Robust finite-time stability of discrete time systems with interval time-varying delay and nonlinear perturbations

The problem of finite-time stability (FTS) for discrete-time systems with interval time-varying delay, nonlinear perturbations and parameter uncertainties is considered in this paper. In order to obtain less conservative stability criteria, a finite sum inequality with delayed states is proposed. Some sufficient conditions of FTS are derived in the form of the linear matrix inequalities (LMIs) by using Lyapunov–Krasovskii-like functional (LKLF) with power function and single/double summation terms. More precisely estimations of the upper bound of the initial value of LKLF and the lower bound of LKLF are proposed. As special cases, the FTS of nominal discrete-time systems with constant or time-varying delay is considered. The numerical examples are presented to illustrate the effectiveness of the results and their improvement over the existing literature.     

Improved stability criteria for linear systems with time-varying delays

This paper is concerned with the stability analysis of linear systems with time-varying delays. First, by introducing the quadratic terms of time-varying delays and some integral vectors, a more suitable Lyapunov-Krasovskii functional (LKF) is constructed. Second, two new delay-dependent estimation methods are developed in the stability analysis of linear system with time-varying delays, which include a reciprocally convex matrix inequality and an integral inequality. More information about time-varying delays and more free matrices are introduced into the two estimation approaches, which play a key role for obtaining an accurate upper bound of the integral terms in time derivative of LKFs. Third, based on the novel LKFs and new estimation approaches, some less conservative criteria are derived in the form of linear matrix inequality (LMI). Finally, three numerical examples are applied to verify the advantages and effectiveness of the newly proposed methods.     

Novel delay-partitioning approaches to stability analysis for uncertain Lur’e systems with time-varying delays

This work deals with the problem of absolute stability analysis for a class of uncertain Lur’e systems with time-varying delays. Novel delay-partitioning approaches are presented, which are dividing the variation interval of the delay into three subintervals. Some new augment Lyapunov–Krasovskii functionals (LKFs) are defined on each of the obtained subintervals which can efficiently make use of the information of the delay and relate to the reciprocally convex combination technique and the Wirtinger-based integral inequality method. Several improved delay-dependent criteria are derived in terms of the linear matrix inequalities (LMIs). The merit of the proposed criteria lies in their less conservativeness and lower numerical complexity than relative literature. Two numerical examples are included to illustrate the effectiveness and the improvement of the proposed method.     

Quadratically convex combination approach to stability of T–S fuzzy systems with time-varying delay

This paper develops a novel stability analysis method for Takagi–Sugeno (T–S) fuzzy systems with time-varying delay. New delay-dependent stability criteria in terms of linear matrix inequalities for time-varying delayed T–S fuzzy systems are derived by the newly proposed augmented Lyapunov–Krasovski (L–K) functional. This functional contains the cross terms of variables and quadratic terms multiplied by a higher degree scalar function. Different from previous results, our derivation applies the idea of second-order convex combination, and the property of quadratic convex function without resorting to the Jensen's inequality. Two numerical examples are provided to verify the effectiveness of the presented results.     

Some augmented approaches to the improved stability criteria for linear systems with time-varying delays

This work investigates the improved stability conditions for linear systems with time-varying delays via various augmented approaches. Some augmented approaches are augmented Lyapunov-Krasovskii functionals, augmented zero equalities, and the augmented zero equality approach. At first, by constructing augmented Lyapunov-Krasovskii functionals including the state vectors which were not considered in the previous works and augmented zero equalities, a stability criterion is proposed in the forms of linear matrix inequalities. Through the proposed Lyapunov-Krasovskii functionals and an additional functional derived from the integral inequality, a slightly improved result is derived. The proposed results do not consider the increase in the computational complexity to achieve a larger delay bound. So, by applying the augmented zero equality approach, which is a method of grafting the proposed augmented zero equality proposed in Finsler Lemma, to the proposed result, an enhanced stability result was derived. Also, the computational complexity is reduced by appropriately adjusting any vector of the integral inequality utilized in the proposed criteria. By applying some numerical examples to the proposed conditions, the effectiveness and superiority of the results are confirmed.     

New stability and stabilization criteria for a class of fuzzy singular systems with time-varying delay

This paper deals with the stability analysis and fuzzy stabilizing controller design for fuzzy singular systems with time-varying delay. The time-varying delay is composed of two parts: constant part and time-varying part. Based on the idea of delay partitioning, a new Lyapunov–Krasovskii functional is proposed to develop the new delay-dependent stability criteria, which ensures the considered system to be regular, impulse-free and stable. Furthermore, the desired fuzzy controller gains are also presented by solving a set of strict linear matrix inequalities (LMIs). Some numerical examples are given to show the effectiveness and less conservativeness of the proposed methods.     

New results on stability analysis of systems with time-varying delays using a generalized free-matrix-based inequality

This paper addresses the delay-dependent stability problem of linear systems with interval time-varying delays. A generalized free-matrix-based inequality is proposed and employed to derive stability conditions, which are less conservative than the Bessel–Legendre inequality. An augmented Lyapunov–Krasovskii functional is tailored for the generalized free-matrix-based inequality. Then, some items in the Lyapunov–Krasovskii functionals are integrated so as to relax its positive definite condition, which provides a more accurate lower bound for the Lyapunov–Krasovskii functionals. Therefore, some less conservative stability criteria are presented. Two numerical examples illustrate the effectiveness of the method.     

Delay-dependent stability criteria for systems with asymmetric bounds on delay derivative

This paper discretizes the states, a method introduced in [18] for constant delayed systems, not only in constructing the Lyapunov-Krasovskii (L-K) functional but also in designing the integral inequality technique [17] and [19] for time-varying delayed systems, which increase the order of uncorrelated augmentation [5], [21] and [22]. Based on the discretized state, [10] and [27]'s piecewise analysis method is applied to confirm the system stability in whole delay bound. Asymmetric variation of the delay derivative is assumed so that direct extension to all constraints of the delay derivative can be achieved. Examples show the resulting criteria improve the allowable delay bounds over all existing ones in the literature.     

Stability analysis of systems with two additive time-varying delay components via an improved delay interconnection Lyapunov–Krasovskii functional

This paper is concerned with the stability analysis of systems with two additive time-varying delay components in an improved delay interconnection Lyapunov–Krasovskii framework. At first, an augmented vector and some integral terms considering the additive delays information in a new way are introduced to the Lyapunov–Krasovskii functional (LKF), in which the information of the two upper bounds and the relationship between the two upper bounds and the upper bound of the total delay are both fully considered. Then, the obtained stability criterion shows advantage over the existing ones since not only an improved delay interconnection LKF is constructed but also some advanced techniques such as the free-matrix-based integral inequality and extended reciprocally convex matrix inequality are used to estimate the upper bound of the derivative of the proposed LKF. Finally, a numerical example is given to demonstrate the effectiveness and to show the superiority of the proposed method over existing results.