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This paper deals with a robust stability problem for uncertain Lur'e systems with time-varying delays and sector-bounded nonlinearities. An improved delay-dependent robust stability criterion is proposed via a modified Lyapunov-Krasovskii functional (LKF) approach. Firstly, a modified LKF consisting of delay-dependent matrices and double-integral items under two delay subintervals is constructed, thereby making full use of the delay and its derivative information. Secondly, the stability criteria can be expressed as convex linear matrix inequality (LMI) via the properties of quadratic function application. Thirdly, to further reduce the conservatism of stability criteria, the quadratic generalized free-weighting matrix inequality (QGFMI) is used. Finally, some numerical examples, including the Lur'e system and the general linear time-delayed system, are presented to show the improvement of the proposed approach. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents a control strategy to enhance the lateral dynamics stability and handling performance of the four-wheel independently actuated (FWIA) electric vehicles (EVs). The vehicle longitudinal velocity uncertainty and controller saturation are considered, a double layers control scheme is adopted. In the upper layer, the homogeneous polynomial parameter-dependent approach is introduced to track the uncertainty problem, and a multi-objective controller is designed to obtain the desired external yaw moment. In the lower layer, an optimal force distribution method with considering the distribution error and tire workload is employed to allocate the desired external yaw moment into forces of the four in-wheel motors. Simulation results verify the effectiveness of the proposed control strategy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, we focus on the problem of the absolute and robustly absolute stability for the neutral-type Lur’e system with time-varying delay. By combining the piecewise analysis theory with extended double-integral and Wirtinger-based inequalities technology, some new delay-dependent stability criteria for the absolute and robustly absolute stability are proposed via Lyapunov-Krasovskii functional (LKF) approach. The stability conditions can be expressed as convex linear matrix inequality (LMI) framework, which can be solved by using standard LMI convex optimization solvers. The criteria proposed in this paper are less conservative than some previous ones. Finally, some numerical examples are presented to show the effectiveness of the proposed approach. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper investigates the stability problem of Markovian jump systems with multiple delay components and polytopic uncertainties. A new Lyapunov-Krasovskii functional is used for the stability analysis of Markovian jump systems with or without polytopic uncertainties. Two numerical examples are provided to demonstrate the applicability of the proposed approach. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, for the purpose of improving the energy efficiency of the industrial sensor networks, we investigated the event-based H∞ filtering problem for a class of discrete-time nonlinear sensor network systems with time-varying delay, packet dropout, and multiplicative noises. Instead of traditional time-triggered communication mechanism, the event-triggered strategy is adopted in industrial sensor network, which could not only reduce the transmission frequency of the sensor measurement output, but also guarantee the prescribed filtering performance, if only the threshold in the event-triggered function is chosen suitably. The time-varying delay characteristic of systems is considered with the event-triggered strategy, which has seldom been studied due to the complexity of time-varying delay and event-triggered strategy. The most common network-induced phenomenon of packet dropout in industrial sensor network is described. The purpose is to design a filter satisfying exponentially stable and H∞ indexes. The main result is that sufficient conditions are established, guaranteeing our proposed filter satisfying filtering performance constraints, and the parameters of filter could be got through the derived linear matrix inequality (LMI), if only it is feasible. At last, the filtering approach is demonstrated by a simulation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]