Stability of continuous and discrete time-delay grey systems

In this paper, we have investigated the stability and decaying rate testing problems of grey systems with time delay. Both continuous and discrete time-delay grey systems are discussed whose state matrices are interval matrices. In terms of the Gersgorin theorem, several new delay-independent criteria have been developed to preserve the system stability. By these conditions, new delay-dependent criteria are also presented in order to guarantee that the above-mentioned systems are stable with a specified decay rate. As far as we are aware, this paper seems to be the first to discuss robust stability problems for continuous and discrete time-delay grey systems. Finally, the applications of the results obtained have been illustrated by given numerical examples. We believe that the proposed schemes are applicable to robust control design.