New absolute stability conditions of Lur'e systems with time-varying delay (Q892521)

Summary: This paper is focused on the absolute stability of Lur'e systems with time-varying delay. Based on the quadratic separation framework, a complete delay-decomposing Lyapunov-Krasovskii functional is constructed. By considering the relationship between the time-varying delay and its varying interval, improved delay-dependent absolute stability conditions in terms of Linear Matrix Inequalities (LMIs) are obtained. Moreover, the derived conditions are extended to systems with time-varying structured uncertainties. Finally, a numerical example is given to show the advantage over existing literature.