Novel delay-derivative-dependent stability criteria using new bounding techniques.

SUMMARY This paper studies the stability of linear systems with interval time-varying delays. By constructing a new Lyapunov-Krasovskii functional, two delay-derivative-dependent stability criteria are formulated by incorporating with two different bounding techniques to estimate some integral terms appearing in the derivative of the Lyapunov-Krasovskii functional. The first stability criterion is derived by using a generalized integral inequality, and the second stability criterion is obtained by employing a reciprocally convex approach. When applying these two stability criteria to check the stability of a linear system with an interval time-varying delay, it is shown through some numerical examples that the first stability criterion can provide a larger upper bound of the time-varying delay than the second stability criterion. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]