Time Delay Systems: Methods, Applications and New Trends

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Sipahi, Rifat (Editor), Vyhlídal, Tomáš (Editor), Niculescu, Silviu-Iulian (Editor), Pepe, Pierdomenico (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2012.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences, 423
• Subjects: Engineering.; Artificial intelligence.; Computational intelligence.; Computational Intelligence.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).

This volume is concerned with the control and dynamics of time delay systems; a research field with at least six-decade long history that has been very active especially in the past two decades. In parallel to the new challenges emerging from engineering, physics, mathematics, and economics, the vol...

Table of Contents:

• From the Contents: Lyapunov Functionals and Matrices for Neutral Type Time Delay Systems
• On the Stability of Positive Difference Equations
• Positivity of Complete Quadratic Lyapunov-Krasovskii Functionals in Time-Delay Systems
• On Retarded Nonlinear Time-delay Systems that Generate Neutral Input-Output Equations
• Computation of Imaginary Axis Eigenvalues and Critical Parameters for Neutral Time Delay Systems
• Set-induced Stability Results for Delay Difference Equations.