A new result on the delay‐dependent stability of discrete systems with time‐varying delays

This paper proposes an improvement to the delay‐dependent stability of discrete systems with time‐varying delays. The approach is based on the observation that the positive definiteness of a chosen Lyapunov–Krasovskii functional does not necessarily require all the involved symmetric matrices to be positive definite, which has been overlooked in the literature. The derived delay‐dependent stability conditions are in terms of linear matrix inequalities. It is theoretically proved that our results are less conservative than the corresponding ones obtained by requiring the positive definiteness of all the symmetric matrices in a chosen Lyapunov–Krasovskii functional. The importance of the present approach is that a great number of delay‐dependent analysis and synthesis results obtained by the aforementioned requirement in the literature can be improved by the present approach without introducing any new decision variables. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Stability of a class of switched positive linear time‐delay systems

This paper addresses the problem of stability for a class of switched positive linear time‐delay systems. As first attempt, the Lyapunov–Krasovskii functional is extended to the multiple co‐positive type Lyapunov–Krasovskii functional for the stability analysis of the switched positive linear systems with constant time delay. A sufficient stability criterion is proposed for the underlying system under average dwell time switching. Subsequently, the stability result for system under arbitrary switching is presented by reducing multiple co‐positive type Lyapunov–Krasovskii functional to the common co‐positive type Lyapunov–Krasovskii functional. A numerical example is given to show the potential of the proposed techniques. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Novel delay‐derivative‐dependent stability criteria using new bounding techniques

This paper studies the stability of linear systems with interval time‐varying delays. By constructing a new Lyapunov–Krasovskii functional, two delay‐derivative‐dependent stability criteria are formulated by incorporating with two different bounding techniques to estimate some integral terms appearing in the derivative of the Lyapunov–Krasovskii functional. The first stability criterion is derived by using a generalized integral inequality, and the second stability criterion is obtained by employing a reciprocally convex approach. When applying these two stability criteria to check the stability of a linear system with an interval time‐varying delay, it is shown through some numerical examples that the first stability criterion can provide a larger upper bound of the time‐varying delay than the second stability criterion. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Less conservative stability criteria for linear systems with interval time‐varying delays

The problem of the stability of a linear system with an interval time‐varying delay is investigated. A new Lyapunov–Krasovskii functional that fully uses information about the lower bound of the time‐varying delay is constructed to derive new stability criteria. It is proved that the proposed Lyapunov–Krasovskii functional can lead to less conservative results than some existing ones. Based on the proposed Lyapunov–Krasovskii functional, two stability conditions are developed using two different methods to estimate Lyapunov–Krasovskii functional's derivative. Two numerical examples are given to illustrate that the two stability conditions are complementary and yield a larger maximum upper bound of the time‐varying delay than some existing results. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

New delay‐dependent stability analysis and synthesis of T–S fuzzy systems with time‐varying delay

In this paper, a new method is proposed for stability analysis and synthesis of Takagi–Sugeno (T–S) fuzzy systems with time‐varying delay. Based on a new Lyapunov–Krasovskii functional (LKF), some less conservative delay‐dependent stability criteria are established. In the derivation process, some additional useful terms, ignored in previous methods, are considered and new free‐weighting matrices are introduced to estimate the upper bound of the derivative of LKF for T–S fuzzy systems with time‐varying delay. The proposed stability criterion and stabilization condition are represented in terms of linear matrix inequalities. Numerical examples are given to demonstrate the effectiveness and the benefits of the proposed method. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Delay‐Dependent Stability Criterion for Discrete‐Time Systems with Time‐Varying Delays

The stability analysis problem is considered for linear discrete‐time systems with time‐varying delays. A novel summation inequality is proposed, which takes the double summation information of the system state into consideration. The inequality relaxes the recently proposed discrete Wirtinger inequality and its improved version. Based on construction of a suitable Lyapunov‐Krasovskii functional and the novel summation inequality, an improved delay‐dependent stability criterion for asymptotic stability of the systems is derived in terms of linear matrix inequalities. Numerical examples are given to demonstrate the advantages of the proposed method.     

Delay‐range‐dependent robust stability and stabilization for uncertain systems with time‐varying delay

This paper concerns delay‐range‐dependent robust stability and stabilization for time‐delay system with linear fractional form uncertainty. The time delay is assumed to be a time‐varying continuous function belonging to a given range. On the basis of a novel Lyapunov–Krasovskii functional, which includes the information of the range, delay‐range‐dependent stability criteria are established in terms of linear matrix inequality. It is shown that the new criteria can provide less conservative results than some existing ones. Moreover, the stability criteria are also used to design the stabilizing state‐feedback controllers. Numerical examples are given to demonstrate the applicability of the proposed approach. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

A new design of delay‐dependent robust ℋ︁∞ filtering for continuous‐time polytopic systems with time‐varying delay

This paper revisits the problem of delay‐dependent robust ?_∞ filtering design for a class of continuous‐time polytopic linear systems with a time‐varying state delay. Based on a newly developed parameter‐dependent Lyapunov–Krasovskii functional combined with Projection Lemma and an improved free‐weighting matrix technique for delay‐dependent criteria, a new sufficient condition for robust ?_∞ performance analysis is first derived and then the filter synthesis is developed by using a simple matrix inequality linearization technique. It is shown that the desired filters can be constructed by solving a set of linear matrix inequalities. Finally, two simulation examples are given to show the effectiveness and less conservatism of the proposed method in comparison with the existing approaches. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Reliable control for a class of uncertain singular systems with interval time‐varying delay

This paper is concerned with the reliable controller design problem for a class of singular systems with interval time‐varying delay and norm‐bounded uncertainties. A more practical model of actuator failures than outages is considered. First, by constructing a novel Lyapunov–Krasovskii functional combined with Finsler's Lemma, an improved delay‐range‐dependent stability criterion for the nominal unforced singular time‐delay system is established in terms of linear matrix inequality (LMI). Then, based on this criterion, an LMI condition for the design of a reliable state feedback controller is presented such that, for all parameter uncertainties and actuator failures, the resultant closed‐loop system is regular, impulse‐free and stable. Numerical examples are proposed to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed method. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley and Sons Asia Pte Ltd and Chinese Automatic Control Society     

A new discretized Lyapunov–Krasovskii functional for stability analysis and control design of time‐delayed TS fuzzy systems

This paper proposes a new Lyapunov–Krasovskii functional to cope with stability analysis and control design for time‐delay nonlinear systems modeled in the Takagi–Sugeno (TS) fuzzy form. The delay‐dependent conditions are formulated as linear matrix inequalities (LMIs), solvable through several numerical tools. By using the Gu's discretization technique and by employing an appropriated fuzzy functional, less conservative conditions are obtained. Numerical results illustrate the efficiency of the proposed methods. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Passive Control for Stochastic Interval Systems with Interval Time‐Varying Delay

This paper is concerned with the problem of delay‐dependent passive analysis and control for stochastic interval systems with interval time‐varying delay. The system matrices are assumed to be uncertain within given intervals, and the time delay is a time‐varying continuous function belonging to a given range. By the transformation of the interval uncertainty into the norm‐bounded uncertainty, partitioning the delay into two segments of equal length, and constructing an appropriate Lyapunov–Krasovskii functional in each segment of the delay interval, delay‐dependent stochastic passive control criteria are proposed without ignoring any useful terms by considering the information of the lower bound and upper bound for the time delay. The main contribution of this paper is that a tighter upper bound of the stochastic differential of Lyapunov–Krasovskii functional is obtained via a newly‐proposed bounding condition. Based on the criteria obtained, a delay‐dependent passive controller is presented. The results are formulated in terms of linear matrix inequalities. Numerical examples are given to demonstrate the effectiveness of the method.     

Improved delay‐dependent absolute stability and robust stability for a class of nonlinear systems with a time‐varying delay

This paper investigates the problem of the absolute stability of Lur'e systems with a time‐varying delay. By considering the relationships among the time‐varying delay, its upper bound, and the difference between them, less conservative delay‐dependent stability criteria are obtained and formulated in terms of linear matrix inequalities, without ignoring any useful terms in the derivative of a Lyapunov–Krasovskii functional. Numerical example shows that the results obtained in this paper are better than the previous results. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Improved delay‐range‐dependent stability analysis for uncertain retarded systems based on affine Wirtinger‐inequality

This note considers the problem of deriving sufficient delay‐range‐dependent stability (DRDS) condition for a general class of uncertain (or nonlinear) retarded system. The stability result is developed by proposing appropriate Lyapunov–Krasovskii functional to effectively utilize the merit of recently proposed affine Wirtinger inequality. The delay upper bound results obtained by the developed condition are found to be less conservative compared with recent results for both nominal and uncertain systems. Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Input‐to‐state stability of min‐max MPC scheme for nonlinear time‐varying delay systems

This paper studies the robustness problem of the min–max model predictive control (MPC) scheme for constrained nonlinear time‐varying delay systems subject to bounded disturbances. The notion of the input‐to‐state stability (ISS) of nonlinear time‐delay systems is introduced. Then by using the Lyapunov–Krasovskii method, a delay‐dependent sufficient condition is derived to guarantee input‐to‐state practical stability (ISpS) of the closed‐loop system by way of nonlinear matrix inequalities (NLMI). In order to lessen the online computational demand, the non‐convex min‐max optimization problem is then converted to a minimization problem with linear matrix inequality (LMI) constraints and a suboptimal MPC algorithm is provided. Finally, an example of a truck‐trailer is used to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed results. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley and Sons Asia Pte Ltd and Chinese Automatic Control Society     

Delay range‐and‐rate dependent stability criteria for systems with interval time‐varying delay via a quasi‐quadratic convex framework

This paper concerns the stability analysis of systems with interval time‐varying delay. A Lyapunov‐Krasovskii functional containing an augmented quadratic term and certain triple integral terms is constructed to integrate features of the truncated Bessel‐Legendre inequality less conservative than Wirtinger inequality that encompasses Jensen inequality, respectively, and to exploit merits of the newly developed double integral inequalities tighter than auxiliary function‐based, Wirtinger, and Jensen double integral inequalities. A new quadratic convex lemma is proposed to derive delay and its derivative dependent sufficient stability conditions in terms of linear matrix inequalities synthetically with reciprocal convex approach and affine convex combination. The efficiency of the presented method is illustrated on some classical numerical examples.     

Delay‐range‐dependent control of nonlinear time‐delay systems under input saturation

This paper describes a delay‐range‐dependent local state feedback controller synthesis approach providing estimation of the region of stability for nonlinear time‐delay systems under input saturation. By employing a Lyapunov–Krasovskii functional, properties of nonlinear functions, local sector condition and Jensen's inequality, a sufficient condition is derived for stabilization of nonlinear systems with interval delays varying within a range. Novel solutions to the delay‐range‐dependent and delay‐dependent stabilization problems for linear and nonlinear time‐delay systems, respectively, subject to input saturation are derived as specific scenarios of the proposed control strategy. Also, a delay‐rate‐independent condition for control of nonlinear systems in the presence of input saturation with unknown delay‐derivative bound information is established. And further, a robust state feedback controller synthesis scheme ensuring L₂ gain reduction from disturbance to output is devised to address the problem of the stabilization of input‐constrained nonlinear time‐delay systems with varying interval lags. The proposed design conditions can be solved using linear matrix inequality tools in connection with conventional cone complementary linearization algorithms. Simulation results for an unstable nonlinear time‐delay network and a large‐scale chemical reactor under input saturation and varying interval time‐delays are analyzed to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed methodology. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Robust stability of nonlinear time‐delay systems with interval time‐varying delay

This paper deals with the problem of obtaining delay‐dependent stability conditions and L₂‐gain analysis for a class of nonlinear time‐delay systems with norm‐bounded and possibly time‐varying uncertainties. No restrictions on the derivative of the time‐varying delay are imposed, though lower and upper bounds of the delay interval are assumed to be known. A Lyapunov–Krasovskii functional approach is proposed to derive novel delay‐dependent stability conditions which are expressed in terms of linear matrix inequalities (LMIs). To reduce conservatism, the work exploits the idea of splitting the delay interval in multiple regions, so that specific conditions can be imposed to a unique functional in the different regions. This improves the computed bounds for certain delay‐dependent integral terms, providing less conservative LMI conditions. Examples are provided to demonstrate the reduced conservatism with respect to the available results in the literature. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Improved robust stability criteria for uncertain systems with time‐varying delay

This paper is concerned with the delay‐dependent stability and robust stability for uncertain systems with time‐varying delay. Through constructing an appropriate type of Lyapunov‐Krasovskii functional and proving its positive definiteness, using slack matrices and a convex combination condition, the delay‐dependent stability criteria, which are less conservative, are derived in terms of linear matrix inequalities. Numerical examples are also given to illustrate the improvement on the conservatism of the delay bound over some existing results. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley and Sons Asia Pte Ltd and Chinese Automatic Control Society     

Finite‐time stability and stabilization of semi‐Markovian jump systems with time delay

Semi‐Markovian jump systems are more general than Markovian jump systems in modeling practical systems. On the other hand, the finite‐time stochastic stability is also more effective than stochastic stability in practical systems. This paper focuses on the finite‐time stochastic stability, exponential stochastic stability, and stabilization of semi‐Markovian jump systems with time‐varying delay. First, a new stability condition is presented to guarantee the finite‐time stochastic stability of the system by using a new Lyapunov‐Krasovskii functional combined with Wirtinger‐based integral inequality. Second, the stability criterion is further proved to guarantee the exponential stochastic stability of the system. Moreover, a controller design method is also presented according to the stability criterion. Finally, an example is provided to illustrate that the proposed stability condition is less conservative than other existing results. Additionally, we use the proposed method to design a controller for a load frequency control system to illustrate the effectiveness of the method in a practical system of the proposed method.     

A delay‐dependent bounded real lemma for singular LPV systems with time‐variant delay

This paper is concerned with establishing a delay‐dependent bounded real lemma (BRL) for singular linear parameter‐varying (LPV) systems with time‐variant delay. In terms of linear matrix inequality, a delay‐dependent BRL is presented to ensure singular time‐delay LPV systems to be admissible and satisfy a prescribed H_∞ performance level. The BRL is obtained based on the construction of a parameter‐dependent Lyapunov–Krasovskii functional. The effectiveness of the proposed approach is shown by several numerical examples. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.