New stability criteria for linear systems with interval time-varying delay

Abstract

This paper investigates robust stability of uncertain linear systems with interval time-varying delay. The time-varying delay is assumed to belong to an interval and is a fast time-varying function. The uncertainty under consideration includes polytopic-type uncertainty and linear fractional norm-bounded uncertainty. A new Lyapunov–Krasovskii functional, which makes use of the information of both the lower and upper bounds of the interval time-varying delay, is proposed to drive some new delay-dependent stability criteria. In order to obtain much less conservative results, a tighter bounding for some term is estimated. Moreover, no redundant matrix variable is introduced. Finally, three numerical examples are given to show the effectiveness of the proposed stability criteria.