Improved results on exponential stability of discrete-time switched delay systems (Q523985)

Average dwell time (ADT) switchings are a class of typical constrained switching signals for which the number of switches in a finite interval is bounded and the average time between consecutive switching is not less than a constant. However, the ADT switchings' independence on system modes always lead to much conservativeness to stability criteria. In order to decrease the conservativeness, a new concept, the mode-dependent average dwell time (MDADT) technique, has been proposed in [\textit{J. Zhang} et al., Nonlinear Anal., Hybrid Syst. 9, 42--55 (2013; Zbl 1287.93070)], where each mode in the underlying switched systems has its own ADT. This MDADT can guarantee that the dwell time will not deteriorate the disturbance attenuation performance. Meanwhile, the increasing coefficient of the Lyapunov-like function at switching instants and the decay rate of the Lyapunov-like function during the running time of subsystems are set in a mode-dependent manner, which can reduce the conservativeness. Therefore, how to extend the MDADT technique to decrease the conservativeness of the existing stability results for the switched systems accordingly is a valuable problem to investigate. This is the main motivation of this work. According to the main result of the paper, using a properly constructed decay-rate-dependent Lyapunov functional and the state variable transformation technique, sufficient conditions which explicitly characterize the switching signals specified by the MDADT are constructed to guarantee exponential stability of the switched delay systems. In Section 2, the authors present a class of discrete-time switched delay systems, and necessary definitions on stability of switched systems are also provided. Section 3 is devoted to establish the results on exponential stability for the discrete-time switched delay system. In Section 4, numerical examples are given to illustrate the obtained results.