Robust stability and memory state feedback control for a class of switched nonlinear systems with multiple time-varying delays

Abstract

This study is concerned with the stability analysis and the feedback stabilization problems for a class of uncertain switched nonlinear systems with multiple time-varying delays. Unusually, more general time delays, which depend on the subsystem number, are considered. In this regard, by constructing a novel common Lyapunov function, using the aggregation techniques and the Borne and Gentina criterion, new algebraic stability and feedback stabilization conditions under arbitrary switching are derived. The proposed results are explicit and obtained without searching a common Lyapunov function through the linear matrix inequalities approach, considered a difficult matter in this case. At last, two numerical simulation examples are shown to prove the practical utility of the suggested approach.