Global stability of polytopic linear time-varying dynamic systems under time-varying point delays and impulsive controls (Q1958879)

Summary: This paper investigates the stability properties of a class of dynamic linear systems possessing several linear time-invariant parameterizations (or configurations) which conform a linear time-varying polytopic dynamic system with a finite number of time-varying time-differentiable point delays. The parameterizations may be timevarying and with bounded discontinuities and they can be subject to mixed regular plus impulsive controls within a sequence of time instants of zero measure. The polytopic parameterization for the dynamics associated with each delay is specific, so that \((q+1)\) polytopic parameterizations are considered for a system with \(q\) delays being also subject to delay-free dynamics. The considered general dynamic system includes, as particular cases, a wide class of switched linear systems whose individual parameterizations are time-invariant which are governed by a switching rule. However, the dynamic system under consideration is viewed as much more general since it is time-varying with time-varying delays and the bounded discontinuous changes of active parameterizations are generated by impulsive controls in the dynamics and, at the same time, there is not a prescribed set of candidate potential parameterizations.