A new stability criterion and its application to robust stability analysis for linear systems with distributed delays (Q6103042)

The paper considers a rather general time delay system of the form \[ \dot{x}(t) = \sum_1^m\left(A_kx(t-h_k) + \int_{-h_k}^0G_k(\theta)x(t+\theta)d\theta\right)\tag{1} \] Let \(h=\max_k\;h_k\) and \(X = PC(-h,0;C^n)\). Let also \(S=\{\varphi\in X\mid\Vert \varphi\Vert_h=|\varphi(0)|\}\) and \(S(\tau,K)=\{\varphi\in C^1(-h,0;C^n)|\Vert \varphi\Vert_\tau=|\varphi(0)|, \Vert \varphi'\Vert_\tau \leq K|\varphi(0)|\}\) with \[ \tau\geq h, K= \Vert A_0\Vert + \sum_1^m\left(\Vert A_i\Vert + \int_{-h_i}^0\Vert K_i(\theta)\Vert d\theta\right) \] The main result of the paper is to show that the negative definiteness of a Lyapunov-Krasovskii functional derivative along the solutions of (1) may be verified only on the set \(S\) or \(S(\tau,K)\) in order to obtain asymptotic stability.