Delay-dependent robust exponential stabilization for uncertain systems with interval time-varying delays

New robust exponential stabilization criteria for interval time-varying delay systems with norm-bounded uncertainties are proposed. Based on the free-weighting matrices and new Lyapunov-Krasovskii functionals, such criteria are obtained by dealing with system model directly and designing memoryless state feedback controllers and expressed in terms of linear matrix inequalities (LMIs). Moreover, the criteria are applicable to the case whether the derivative of the time-varying delay is bounded or not. The state decay rate is estimated by the corresponding LMIs. Numerical examples are given to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed method. © South China University of Technology, Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Springer-Verlag GmbH 2009.