Delay-dependent stability of neutral systems with time-varying delays using delay-decomposition approach

This paper is concerned with the problem of asymptotic stability of neutral systems. A new delay-dependent stability condition is derived in terms of linear matrix inequality to ensure a large upper bound of the time-delay by non-uniformly dividing the delay interval into multiple segments. A new Lyapunov-Krasovskii functional is constructed with different weighting matrices corresponding to different segments in the Lyapunov-Krasovskii functional, where both constant time delays and time-varying delays have been taken into account. Numerical examples are given to demonstrate the effectiveness and less conservativeness of the proposed methods. (C) 2011 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.