On computing maximum allowable time delay of Lur’e systems with uncertain time-invariant delays

In this paper, we present an improved delay-dependent absolute stability criterion for Lur’e systems with time delays. The guarantee of absolute stability is provided by Lyapunov-Krasovskii theorem with the Lyapunov functional containing the integral of sector-bounded nonlinearities. The Lyapunov functional terms involving delay are partitioned to be associated with each equidistant fragment on the length of time delay. Employing the Jensen inequality and S-procedure, the sufficient condition is derived from time derivative of the Lyapunov functional. Then, the absolute stability criterion expressed in terms of linear matrix inequalities (LMIs) can be efficiently solved using available LMI solvers. The bisection method is used to determine the maximum allowable time delays to ensure the stability of Lur’e systems in the presence of uncertain time-invariant delays. In addition, the stability criterion is extended to Lur’e systems subject to norm-bounded uncertainties by using the matrix eliminating lemma. Numerical results from two benchmark problems show that the proposed criteria give significant improvement on the maximum allowable time delays.     

Robust absolute stability criteria for uncertain Lur'e systems of neutral type

This paper is concerned with robust absolute stability of uncertain Lur'e systems of neutral type. Some delay‐dependent stability criteria are obtained and formulated in the form of linear matrix inequalities. The criteria cover some existing results as their special cases. Neither model transformation nor bounding technique for cross terms is involved through derivation of the stability criteria. Numerical examples show the effectiveness of the criteria. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Effects of small delays on stability of singularly perturbed systems

A small delay in the feedback loop of a singularly perturbed system may destabilize it; however, without the delay, it is stable for all small enough values of a singular perturbation parameter ε. Sufficient and necessary conditions for preserving stability, for all small enough values of delay and ε, are obtained in two cases: in the case of delay proportional to ε and in the case of independent delay and ε. In the second case, the sufficient conditions are given in terms of an LMI. A delay-dependent LMI criterion for the stability of singularly perturbed differential-difference systems is derived.     

中立型一般Lurie系统绝对稳定的时滞相关准则

研究了具有时滞的中立型一般Lurie系统的绝对稳定性问题.利用Lyapunov方法给 出了系统在无限扇形角内绝对稳定的时滞相关准则,所给的判定条件是线性矩阵不等式(LMI) 形式的,可以很方便地运用Matlab工具箱求解.一个应用的例子表明与现有的一些准则相比, 本文所给的条件具有较小的保守性.     

中立型时滞系统的新的绝对稳定性的法则

研究了具有扇形有界非线性的中立型时滞系统的绝对稳定性. 利用新的Lyapunov-Krasovskii泛函, 基于线性矩阵不等式得到了保守性低的稳定性结果. 从而给出了该系统的新的绝对稳定的法则. 最后用数值算例来演示所得到的结论的可行性与较低的保守性. 文中也考虑了不确定性中立型时滞系统, 他们的不确定性必须是范数有界的, 但可以是时变的.     

Absolute stability in linear delay-differential systems: ill-posedness and robustness

The author considers matrix delay-differential systems which are polynomial in several delay operators. Using a necessary and sufficient criterion for stability independent of delay, or absolute stability, the author shows that system stability for all values of the delay vector lying in a sector will imply absolute stability. We then show that absolute stability is ill-posed with respect to arbitrarily small perturbations of the delay ratios if a certain extended delay-differential system which is formed from the original is not also absolutely stable.<>     

Absolute stability criteria with prescribed decay rate for finite-dimensional and delay systems

We provide here an extension of Popov criterion, permitting to check exponential stability with prescribed decay rate (otherwise called α-stability) of nonlinear delay systems with sector-bounded nonlinearities. As for the celebrated result, the main hypothesis is expressed under a frequency form. For the delay-free case, the latter is equivalent to a linear matrix inequality, whose solution may be found by widespread algorithms.     

Stability analysis of T–S fuzzy models for nonlinear multiple time-delay interconnected systems

In this paper, the Takagi–Sugeno (T–S) fuzzy model representation is extended to the stability analysis for nonlinear interconnected systems with multiple time-delays using linear matrix inequality (LMI) theory. In terms of Lyapunov’s direct method for multiple time-delay fuzzy interconnected systems, a novel LMI-based stability criterion which can be solved numerically is proposed. Then, the common P matrix of the criterion is obtained by LMI optimization algorithms to guarantee the asymptotic stability of nonlinear interconnect systems with multiple time-delay. Finally, the proposed stability conditions are demonstrated with simulations throughout this paper.     

Parametric Absolute Stabilization for Interconnected Lurie Time‐Delay Systems with Polytopic Uncertainty

The paper considers the parametric absolute stabilization for interconnected Lurie time‐delay systems with polytopic uncertainty. The concept of parametric absolute stabilization characterizes both the existence and the stability of equilibrium in the case of uncertain parameters and reference input shift. First, the existing conditions of parametric stability and the stable region are studied by the change of the uncertain parameters and reference input based on decentralized state feedback. Then, a delay‐dependent absolute stability condition in parametric stabilization region for interconnected Lurie time‐delay systems with polytopic uncertainties is obtained through a linear matrix inequality method. Finally, an example is given to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.     

Stability analysis and H∞ control design for a class of nonlinear time‐delay systems

This paper investigates the stability and H_∞ control problem for a class of nonlinear time‐delay systems with a nonsingular Jacobian matrix, and provides a number of new results regarding stability analysis and control design. Firstly, an equivalent form is obtained for this class of systems by means of coordinate transformation and/or orthogonal decomposition of vector fields. Then, based on the equivalent form and free‐weighting matrix method, several sufficient conditions, in terms of nonlinear matrix inequalities, are derived for the stability analysis of the time‐delay systems by constructing suitable Lyapunov functionals. Finally, we use the equivalent form and the obtained stability results to investigate the H_∞ control problem, and present a control design procedure for this class of time‐delay systems. A study of illustrative examples shows that the results obtained in this paper have less conservatism, and work very well in the stability analysis and control design of some nonlinear time‐delay systems. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley and Sons Asia Pte Ltd and Chinese Automatic Control Society     

New results on delay‐dependent stability analysis and stabilization for stochastic time‐delay systems

This paper investigates the problems of stability analysis and stabilization for stochastic time‐delay systems. Firstly, this paper uses the martingale theory to investigate expectations of stochastic cross terms containing the Itô integral. On the basis of this, an improved delay‐dependent stability criterion is derived for stochastic delay systems. In the derivation process, the mathematical development avoids bounding stochastic cross terms, and neither model transformation method nor free‐weighting‐matrix method is used. Thus, the method leads to a simple criterion and shows less conservatism. Secondly, on the basis of this stability result, this paper further proposes a state‐feedback controller that exponentially stabilizes the stochastic delay system by a strict LMI. Therefore, unlike previous results, it is not necessary to transform the nonlinear matrix inequalities into LMIs by the cone complementarity linearization method or parameter‐tuning method, which always yield a suboptimal solution. Finally, examples are provided to demonstrate the reduced conservatism of the proposed conditions.Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

New absolute stability criteria for time‐delay Lur'e systems with sector‐bounded nonlinearity

This paper is concerned with the problem of absolute stability of time‐delay Lur'e systems with sector‐bounded nonlinearity. Several novel criteria are presented by using a Lur'e–Postnikov function. For a general Lur'e system with known time delay, the absolute stability of it is analyzed by solving a set of linear matrix inequalities (LMIs). The maximum upper bound of the allowable time delay for a general Lur'e system is derived by solving a convex optimization problem. The feasibility of the LMIs implies some frequency‐domain interpretations which are similar to the frequency‐domain inequalities in the circle criterion and the Popov criterion. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Stability analysis for linear switched systems with time-varying delay.

This correspondence considers the stability problem for a class of linear switched systems with time-varying delay in the sense of Hurwitz convex combination. The bound of derivative of the time-varying delay can be an unknown constant. It is concluded that the stability result for linear switched systems still holds for such systems with time-varying delay under a certain delay bound. Moreover, the delay bound of guaranteeing system stability can be easily obtained based on linear matrix inequalities (LMIs). As a special case, when the time-varying delay becomes constant, the criterion obtained in this correspondence is less conservative than existing ones. The reason for less conservativeness is also explicitly explained in this correspondence. Simulation examples illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.     

Delay‐dependent robust H∞ controller synthesis for discrete singular delay systems

In this paper, the problems of delay‐dependent robust stability analysis, robust stabilization and robust H_∞ control are investigated for uncertain discrete‐time singular systems with state delay. First, by making use of the delay partitioning technique, a new delay‐dependent criterion is given to ensure the nominal system to be regular, causal and stable. This new criterion is further extended to singular systems with both delay and parameter uncertainties. Then, without the assumption that the considered systems being regular and causal, robust controllers are designed for discrete‐time singular time‐delay systems such that the closed‐loop systems have the characteristics of regularity, causality and asymptotic stability. Moreover, the problem of robust H_∞ control is solved following a similar line. The obtained results are dependent not only on the delay, but also on the partitioning size and the conservatism is non‐increasing with reducing partitioning size. These results are shown, via extensive numerical examples, to be much less conservative than the existing results in the literature. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

A stability criterion for singular systems with two additive time-varying delay components

The problem of stability for singular systems with two additive time-varying delay components is investigated. By constructing a simple type of Lyapunov-Krasovskii functional and utilizing free matrix variables in approximating certain integral quadratic terms, a delay-dependent stability criterion is established for the considered systems to be regular, impulse free, and stable in terms of linear matrix inequalities (LMIs). Based on this criterion, some new stability conditions for singular systems with a single delay in a range and regular systems with two additive time-varying delay components are proposed. These developed results have advantages over some previous ones in that they have fewer matrix variables yet less conservatism. Finally, two numerical examples are employed to illustrate the effectiveness of the obtained theoretical results.     

Absolute stability of nonlinear systems with two additive time-varying delay components

In this paper, we present a new sufficient condition for absolute stability of Lure system with two additive time-varying delay components. This criterion is expressed as a set of linear matrix inequalities (LMIs), which can be readily tested by using standard numerical software. We use this new criterion to stabilize a class of nonlinear time-delay systems. Some numerical examples are given to illustrate the applicability of the results using standard numerical software.     

Absolute Stability of Nonlinear Systems with Two Additive Time-varying Delay Components

In this paper, we present a new sufficient condition for absolute stability of Lure system with two additive time-varying delay components. This criterion is expressed as a set of linear matrix inequalities (LMIs), which can be readily tested by using standard numerical software. We use this new criterion to stabilize a class of nonlinear time-delay systems. Some numerical examples are given to illustrate the applicability of the results using standard numerical software.     

Lurie型直接控制系统的绝对稳定性

Lurie型控制系统是一类非常典型的非线性控制系统,具有广泛的实际工程应用背景.本文利用Popov频域法,研究了一类Lurie型直接控制系统的绝对稳定性.在系统矩阵无对角线相等情形假设的一般条件下,给出了该类系统绝对稳定的一些充分必要条件.这些结论推广了前人所取得的研究成果.     

Delay-Independent Stability Conditions for Time-Varying Nonlinear Uncertain Systems

A new stability criterion for time-varying systems consisting of linear and norm bounded nonlinear terms with uncertain time-varying delays is formulated. An explicit delay-independent sufficient stability condition is formulated in the terms of the transition matrix of the given linear part without delay and the bounds for the uncertain terms. The obtained condition turns out to be also necessary if the matrix of the linear part is time-invariant and symmetric; it is shown that these systems satisfy the well-known Aizerman's conjecture. The obtained criterion is contrasted by some of stability estimates available in the literature for these kinds of systems; in all cases the proposed criterion provides less conservative stability bounds.