Title : 
On stability properties of time-varying systems with delays
         
        
            Author : 
Tiwari, Shanaz ; Wang, Yuan
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Dept. of Math. Sci., Florida Atlantic Univ., Boca Raton, FL, USA
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
We consider several stability properties in the framework of input-to-state stability for time-varying systems with delays. By following a natural approach to convert a time-varying system to an auxiliary time-invariant system, we obtain several results including Razumikhin-type stability criteria, Razumikhin-Lyapunov functions with non-strict decay rates, and cyclic small-gain theorems for time-varying systems with delays.
         
        
            Keywords : 
Lyapunov methods; delays; input-output stability; stability criteria; time-varying systems; Razumikhin-Lyapunov functions; Razumikhin-type stability criteria; auxiliary time-invariant system; cyclic small-gain theorems; delays; input-to-state stability; nonstrict decay rates; time-varying systems; Delay; Estimation; Lyapunov methods; Stability criteria; Time varying systems; Trajectory; Razumikhin theorems; delays; input-to-state stability; nonlinear small-gain; time-varying systems;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Decision and Control and European Control Conference (CDC-ECC), 2011 50th IEEE Conference on
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Orlando, FL
         
        
        
            Print_ISBN : 
978-1-61284-800-6
         
        
            Electronic_ISBN : 
0743-1546
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/CDC.2011.6160468