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This article investigates the problem of delay-dependent stability for the one-area load frequency control (LFC) system with electric vehicles (EVs). Two closed-loop models of the LFC system with EVs are proposed, including the model based on the model reconstructed technique and the model with uncertain parameters that considers state of charge. By employing the Lyapunov–Krasovskii functional method, two delay-dependent stability criteria are presented for the systems under study such that a more accurate admissible delay upper bound (ADUB) can be obtained. Case studies are finally carried out to disclose the interrelationship between the ADUB, PI controller gains, and other parameters of the EVs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article is concerned with designing resilient state feedback controllers for a class of networked control systems under denial-of-service (DoS) attacks. The sensor samples system states periodically. The DoS attacks usually prevent those sampled signals from being transmitted through a communication network. A logic processor embedded in the controller is introduced to not only receive sampled signals but also capture information on the duration time of each DoS attack. Note that the duration time of DoS attacks is usually both lower and upper bounded. Then the closed-loop system is modeled as an aperiodic sampled-data system closely related to both lower and upper bounds of duration time of DoS attacks. By introducing a novel looped functional, which caters for the $N$ -order canonical Bessel–Legendre inequalities, some $N$ -dependent stability criteria are presented for the resultant closed-loop system. It is worth pointing out that a number of identity formulas are uncovered, which enable us to apply the notable free-weighting matrix approach to derive less conservative stability criteria. A linear-matrix-inequality-based criterion is provided to design stabilizing state-feedback controllers against DoS attacks. A satellite control system is given to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is concerned with passivity of a class of delayed neural networks. In order to derive less conservative passivity criteria, two Lyapunov–Krasovskii functionals (LKFs) with delay-dependent matrices are introduced by taking into consideration a second-order Bessel–Legendre inequality. In one LKF, the system state vector is coupled with those vectors inherited from the second-order Bessel–Legendre inequality through delay-dependent matrices, while no such coupling of them exists in the other LKF. These two LKFs are referred to as the coupled LKF and the noncoupled LKF, respectively. A number of delay-dependent passivity criteria are derived by employing a convex approach and a nonconvex approach to deal with the square of the time-varying delay appearing in the derivative of the LKF. Through numerical simulation, it is found that: 1) the coupled LKF is more beneficial than the noncoupled LKF for reducing the conservatism of the obtained passivity criteria and 2) the passivity criteria using the convex approach can deliver larger delay upper bounds than those using the nonconvex approach. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Fixed-time cooperative control is currently a hot research topic in multiagent systems since it can provide a guaranteed settling time, which does not depend on initial conditions. Compared with asymptotic cooperative control algorithms, fixed-time cooperative control algorithms can achieve better closed-loop performance and disturbance rejection properties. Different from finite-time control, fixed-time cooperative control produces the faster rate of convergence and provides an explicit estimation of the settling time independent of initial conditions, which is desirable for multiagent systems. This paper aims at presenting an overview of recent advances in fixed-time cooperative control of multiagent systems. Some fundamental concepts about finite- and fixed-time stability and stabilization are first recalled with insight understanding. Then, recent results in finite- and fixed-time cooperative control are reviewed in detail and categorized according to different agent dynamics. Finally, this paper raises several challenging issues that need to be addressed in the near future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is concerned with global asymptotic stability for a class of generalized neural networks (NNs) with interval time-varying delays, which include two classes of fundamental NNs, i.e., static neural networks (SNNs) and local field neural networks (LFNNs), as their special cases. Some novel delay-independent and delay-dependent stability criteria are derived. These stability criteria are applicable not only to SNNs but also to LFNNs. It is theoretically proven that these stability criteria are more effective than some existing ones either for SNNs or for LFNNs, which is confirmed by some numerical examples. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]