Improved stability criteria for neutral type Lur’e systems with time-varying delays

In this letter, the problem of stability analysis for neutral type Lur’e systems with interval time-varying delays is considered. By introducing a novel Lyapunov–Krasovskii (L–K) functional and utilizing second order reciprocal convex combination technique and Finsler lemma, an improved delay-dependent stability criteria is derived in terms of linear matrix inequalities (LMIs). The information about the time-varying delays and their upper bounds are fully used in the L–K functional. Finally, a numerical example is provided to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.