Robust stability of systems with delay (Q4940505)

The paper deals with the interval delay system \[ \dot{x}(t)=(A+\Delta A)x(t)+(B+\Delta B)x(t-\tau) \tag{1} \] where \(A, B, \Delta A, \Delta B\) are constant \((n\times n)\)-matrices, the elements \(\Delta a_{ij}, \Delta b_{ij}\) of the matrices \(\Delta A, \Delta B\) taking values in segments \([-\alpha _{ij},\alpha _{ij}]\) respectively. The system (1) with \(\Delta A=\Delta B=0\) is supposed to be asymptotically stable. The direct Lyapunov method is applied to obtain sufficient stability conditions for (1) which are uniform with respect to the delay. For example, the following statement is proved. Suppose the matrix \(A+B\) is asymptotically stable, and suppose there exists a positive definite matrix \(H\) satisfying the inequality \[ \lambda _{\min}[-(A+B)^TH-H(A+B)]> 2(\|H(B-\Delta A)\|+\|H(B+\Delta B)\|\sqrt{\varphi (H)}) \] where \(\|\cdot\|=\max_{\Delta a_{ij},\Delta b_{ij}}|\cdot|\), \(|A|=\{\lambda _{\max}(AA^T)\}^{1/2}\), \(\varphi (H)=\lambda _{\max}(H)/ \lambda _{\min}(H)\). Then the system (1) is asymptotically stable for arbitrary \(\tau >0\).