The ISS framework for time-delay systems: a survey (Q6097900)

The concept of ISS was a classical way to approach stability and robustness of dynamical systems and was introduced by \textit{E. D. Sontag} [IEEE Trans. Autom. Control 34, No. 4, 435--443 (1989; Zbl 0682.93045)]. One of the key reasons of the success of the ISS property lies in its Lyapunov characterization that is shown by Sontag and Wang. Later, Eduardo D. Sontag introduced a weaker robustness property known as integral input-to-state stability (iISS). It is worthy noting that both ISS and iISS imply that the origin of the system is globally asymptotically stable when the input is identically zero. In the paper under review, the authors provide an overview of the tools available to study input-to-state stability (ISS) and related notions for time delay systems. The review has 8 sections. In Section 2, some mathematical background and intuition about the considered class of systems are provided. In Section 3, some stability notions of autonomous time-delay systems are reviewed. In Sections 4 and 5, the authors firstly provide classes of systems (namely, linear or globally Lipschitz ones) for which ISS (iISS) can easily be derived based on internal stability properties. They provide some LKF characterizations of ISS (iISS), as well as sufficient conditions for ISS (iISS) by using Razumikhin's or Halanay's approaches, and give sufficient conditions under which a point-wise dissipation is enough to guarantee ISS (iISS). Finally, they present some extensions of the solutions-based characterizations of ISS (iISS) available in finite dimension. In Section 6, some results pertaining to input-to-output stability properties are reviewed. In Section 7, ISS formalism to study stability of interconnected systems is provided. In Section 8, the authors list some important questions remain open in this field of research and also suggest research directions to solve them.