Title :
Delay independent stability conditions and decay estimates for time-varying functional differential equations
Author :
Lehman, Brad ; Shujaee, Khalil
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Eng., Mississippi State Univ., MS, USA
fDate :
8/1/1994 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
This paper presents sufficient delay independent conditions that guarantee stability of nonlinear time varying functional differential equations (FDE´s). Estimates on the rate of decay of solutions are also obtained
Keywords :
delay-differential systems; differential equations; functional equations; nonlinear control systems; stability; time-varying systems; decay estimates; delay independent stability conditions; rate of decay; time-varying functional differential equations; Artificial intelligence; Delay effects; Delay estimation; Delay systems; Differential equations; Lyapunov method; Manipulators; Nonlinear equations; Stability; Time varying systems;
Journal_Title :
Automatic Control, IEEE Transactions on