Memoryless stabilization of uncertain linear systems including time-varying state delays

The problem of stabilizing a class of uncertain time-delay systems via memoryless linear feedback is examined. The systems under consideration are linear systems with time-varying state delays. They also contain uncertain parameters (possibly time-varying) whose values are known only to within a prescribed compact bounding set. The main contribution given is to enlarge the class of time-delay systems for which one can construct a stabilizing memoryless linear feedback controller. Within this framework, a novel notion of robust memoryless stabilizability is first introduced via the method of Lyapunov functionals. Then a sufficient condition for the stabilizability is proposed. It is shown that solvability of a parameterized Riccati equation can be used to determine whether the time-delay system satisfies the sufficient condition. If there exists a positive definite symmetric solution satisfying the Riccati equation, a suitable memoryless linear feedback law can be derived.>