Time Delay Systems: Methods, Applications and New Trends

Front Matter....Pages 1-24
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Lyapunov Functionals and Matrices for Neutral Type Time Delay Systems....Pages 3-17
On the Stability of Positive Difference Equations....Pages 19-33
Positivity of Complete Quadratic Lyapunov-Krasovskii Functionals in Time-Delay Systems....Pages 35-47
On Retarded Nonlinear Time-Delay Systems That Generate Neutral Input-Output Equations....Pages 49-60
Computation of Imaginary Axis Eigenvalues and Critical Parameters for Neutral Time Delay Systems....Pages 61-72
Set-Induced Stability Results for Delay Difference Equations....Pages 73-84
Front Matter....Pages 85-85
Temperature and Heat Flux Dependence/Independence for Heat Equations with Memory....Pages 87-101
Identifiability and Algebraic Identification of Time Delay Systems....Pages 103-117
Stability Analysis for a Consensus System of a Group of Autonomous Agents with Time Delays....Pages 119-133
State Space for Time Varying Delay....Pages 135-146
Delays. Propagation. Conservation Laws.....Pages 147-159
Equations with Advanced Arguments in Stick Balancing Models....Pages 161-172
Optimal Control with Preview for Lateral Steering of a Passenger Car: Design and Test on a Driving Simulator....Pages 173-185
Local Asymptotic Stability Conditions for the Positive Equilibrium of a System Modeling Cell Dynamics in Leukemia....Pages 187-197
Front Matter....Pages 199-199
Design of Fixed-Order Stabilizing and $\\mathcal{H}_2$ - $\\mathcal{H}_\\infty$ Optimal Controllers: An Eigenvalue Optimization Approach....Pages 201-216
Discretization of Solution Operators for Linear Time Invariant - Time Delay Systems in Hilbert Spaces....Pages 217-228
The Infinite Arnoldi Method and an Application to Time-Delay Systems with Distributed Delays....Pages 229-239
A New Method for Delay-Independent Stability of Time-Delayed Systems....Pages 241-252
A Hybrid Method for the Analysis of Non-uniformly Sampled Systems....Pages 253-264
A Numerical Method for the Construction of Lyapunov Matrices for Linear Periodic Systems with Time Delay....Pages 265-275
Front Matter....Pages 199-199
Polytopic Discrete-Time Models for Systems with Time-Varying Delays....Pages 277-288
Front Matter....Pages 289-289
Predictor Feedback: Time-Varying, Adaptive, and Nonlinear....Pages 291-306
Smoothing Techniques-Based Distributed Model Predictive Control Algorithms for Networks....Pages 307-318
Model Predictive Control with Delay Compensation for Air-to-Fuel Ratio Control....Pages 319-330
Observer-Based Stabilizing Control for a Class of Nonlinear Retarded Systems....Pages 331-342
Cascade Control for Time Delay Plants....Pages 343-354
Design of Terminal Cost Functionals and Terminal Regions for Model Predictive Control of Nonlinear Time-Delay Systems....Pages 355-366
Front Matter....Pages 367-367
Networked Control under Time-Synchronization Errors....Pages 369-381
Modelling and Predictive Congestion Control of TCP Protocols....Pages 383-393
Dependence of Delay Margin on Network Topology: Single Delay Case....Pages 395-405
Consensus in Networks under Transmission Delays and the Normalized Laplacian....Pages 407-416
Consensus with Constrained Convergence Rate and Time-Delays....Pages 417-428
 H  ∞  Control of Networked Control Systems via Discontinuous Lyapunov Functionals....Pages 429-440
Back Matter....Pages 0--1