Design of stabilizing controllers of upper triangular nonlinear time-delay systems

In this paper, it is considered the state feedback controller design for a class of upper triangular nonlinear systems with simultaneous input and state delays. By using the state transformation of nonlinear systems, the problem of designing controller can be converted into that of designing a dynamic parameter, which is dynamically regulated by a dynamic equation. Then, by appraising the nonlinear terms of the given systems, a dynamic equation can be delicately constructed. At last, with the help of Lyapunov stability theorem, it is provided the stability analysis for the closed-loop system consisting of the designed controller and the given systems. Both discrete delays and continuous delays with integral form are considered here. Different from many existing control designs for upper triangular nonlinear systems, neither forwarding recursive nor saturation computation is utilized here, and thus our design procedure is simpler. A simulation example is given to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed design procedure.