stability and stabilizability of dynamical systems with multiple time-varying delays delay-dependent criteria系统的稳定性和稳定多时变时滞动力系统模型的时滞相关条件.pdf

STABILITY AND STABILIZABILITY OF DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS WITH MULTIPLE TIME-VARYING DELAYS: DELAY-DEPENDENT CRITERIA D. MEHDI AND E. K. BOUKAS Received 13 June 2002 and in revised form 13 January 2003 This paper deals with the class of uncertain systems with multiple time delays. The sta- bility and stabilizability of this class of systems are considered. Their robustness are also studied when the norm-bounded uncertainties are considered. Linear matrix inequal- ities (LMIs) delay-dependent sufficient conditions for both stability and stabilizability and their robustness are established to check if a system of this class is stable and/or is stabilizable. Some numerical examples are provided to show the usefulness of the pro- posed results. 1. Introduction It was shown in different studies that the presence of the time delay in the systems dy- namics is the primary cause of instability and performance degradation. The class of dynamical systems with time delay has in fact attracted a lot of researchers, mainly from the control community. Many results on this class of systems have been reported in the literature. We refer the reader to [ 1, 7] and the references therein for more information. In the present literature, there exist two techniques that can be used to study the stabil- ity and the stabilizability. The first one is based on the Lyapunov-Razumikhin technique and it consists of considering a Lyapunov function of the form V (x ) = x Px , with P a t t t symmetric and positive-definite matrix with appropriate dimension and xt the state vec- tor of the system, to develop the conditions that can be used to check if the system under study is stable and/or stabilizable. This technique gives a condition that depends on the maximum value of the delay. The reader can consult [2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15] and the references therein for more informa