Novel delay-partitioning approaches to stability analysis for uncertain Lur’e systems with time-varying delays

This work deals with the problem of absolute stability analysis for a class of uncertain Lur’e systems with time-varying delays. Novel delay-partitioning approaches are presented, which are dividing the variation interval of the delay into three subintervals. Some new augment Lyapunov–Krasovskii functionals (LKFs) are defined on each of the obtained subintervals which can efficiently make use of the information of the delay and relate to the reciprocally convex combination technique and the Wirtinger-based integral inequality method. Several improved delay-dependent criteria are derived in terms of the linear matrix inequalities (LMIs). The merit of the proposed criteria lies in their less conservativeness and lower numerical complexity than relative literature. Two numerical examples are included to illustrate the effectiveness and the improvement of the proposed method.