Enhanced Exponential Stability Analysis for Switched Linear Time-Varying Delay Systems Under Admissible Edge-Dependent Average Dwell-Time Strategy

This article focuses on the exponential stability analysis for the switched linear systems with time-varying delay. By constructing a new augmented multiple Lyapunov–Krasovskii functional, containing time-varying delay information, coupling of current and delayed states, state integral, and state derivative terms the feasibility of the stability condition is considerably enhanced. Besides, the
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-order canonical Bessel–Legendre integral inequality and the convex function property are utilized to give more relaxed criteria. On the other hand, for the first time, more flexible switching is employed with an admissible edge-dependent average dwell-time strategy for the switched time-varying delay systems (STDSs). Novel improved delay-dependent stability conditions are expressed by two theorems in the form of linear matrix inequalities which can be used to guarantee the exponential stability of the STDSs in the different delay conditions. Finally, significant improvements over the state-of-the-art in terms of delay upper bound, exponential decay rate, and dwell time are presented by simulating two numerical examples and one practical example including streams water quality preserving.