Hindawi Publishing Corporation Journal of Applied Mathematics Volume 2012, Article ID 593780, 22 pages doi:10.1155/2012/593780 Research Article Delay-Dependent Robust Exponential Stability for Uncertain Neutral Stochastic Systems with Interval Time-Varying Delay Weihua Mao,1, 2 Feiqi Deng,1 and Anhua Wan3 1 College of Automation Science and Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510640, China 2 Department of Mathematics, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, China 3 School of Mathematics and Computational Science, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China Correspondence should be addressed to Anhua Wan, wananhua@mail.sysu.edu.cn Received 25 April 2012; Revised 27 July 2012; Accepted 30 July 2012 Academic Editor: Jitao Sun Copyright q 2012 Weihua Mao et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. This paper discusses the mean-square exponential stability of uncertain neutral linear stochastic systems with interval time-varying delays. A new augmented Lyapunov-Krasovskii functional LKF has been constructed to derive improved delay-dependent robust mean-square exponential stability criteria, which are forms of linear matrix inequalities LMIs. By free-weight matrices method, the usual restriction that the stability conditions only bear slow-varying derivative of the delay is removed. Finally, numerical examples are provided to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed method. 1. Introduction Dynamical systems, such as the distributed networks, electric power systems, and communication systems, can be efficiently modeled by neutral stochastic functional differential equations, which have been extensively studied in recent years, see 1–8 and references therein. Basically, sufficient conditions on stability of time delay systems are divided into two categories: delay-dependent and delay-independent cases. It is well known that the latter is less conservative than the former, especially when the delay is very small. Therefore, increasing attention has been focused on delay-dependent stability analysis of delay systems in recent years, see 1–25. There are unstable systems without delay that can be stabilized with proper nonzero delay, see 26. Therefore, it is of great significance to consider the stability of systems with interval time-varying delay, it is a time delay that varies in an interval, in which the lower bound is not restricted to 0. Recently, interval time-varying delay was introduced and investigated, see 11–17. 2 Journal of Applied Mathematics In the past years, as an effective approach of improving the performance of delaydependent stability criteria, free-weighting matrices method has attracted much attention, see 2–5, 10–12. The mean-square exponential stability was studied for neutral stochastic systems with fixed delays in 2, 3. The global asymptotic stability for a class of neutral stochastic neural networks was studied in 4. Improved delay-dependent robust stability criteria of uncertain stochastic systems with interval time-varying delay were proposed in 12. The usual restriction on derivative of the time-varying delay that τ̇t < 1 in 5–7, 18 brings conservatism, which shows that the resulting conditions can only bear slow-varying delay. In order to remove this limitation, fast-varying rate condition was studied in 4, 12, 23. Stability of stochastic differential delay systems with nonlinear impulsive effects is studied in 24, 25, the equivalent relations are established between the stability of the stochastic differential delay equations with impulsive effects and that of a corresponding stochastic differential delay equations without impulses. To our best knowledge, few works on the robust delay-dependent exponential stability analysis have been reported for uncertain neutral stochastic distributed system with fast-varying interval time-varying delay. This paper focuses on the stability analysis of uncertain neutral stochastic distributed system with interval time-varying delay. By Lyapunov-Krasovskii functional theory and free-weighting matrices method, a new delaydependent mean-square exponential stability criterion is formulated in terms of LMI, and the usual restriction of τ̇t < 1 is removed. Finally, three numerical example are given to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed method. Notation 1. Throughout this paper, the notations are standard. If A is a vector or matrix, its transpose is denoted by AT . P > 0 means that P is a symmetric positive definite matrix. ∗ denotes the symmetry part of a symmetry matrix. indicates terms that can be induced by symmetry, for example, A AT A and MP MT MP . Denote by λM {·} and λm {·} the maximum and minimum eigenvalue of a matrix, respectively. Let ρ· denote the spectral norm of a matrix, while | · | refers to the Euclidean vector norm. Let Ω, F, P be a complete probability space relative to an increasing family {F}t≥0 of σ algebras Ft ⊂ F and E{·} the mathematical expectation operator with respect to the probability measure P. L2 0, ∞ denotes the space of square integrable vector functions over 0, ∞. Let τ > 0 and C−τ, 0, Rn denote the family of all continuous Rn -valued functions φ on −τ, 0 with the norm φ sup{|φθ| : −τ θ ≤ 0}. Let L2F0 −τ, 0; Rn be the family of all F0 -measurable bounded C−τ, 0, Rn -valued random variables ϕ {ϕθ : −τ θ 0}. 2. Preliminaries Consider the following uncertain Itô-type neutral stochastic system with both discrete and distributed interval time-varying delays Σ : dxt − Dxtτ A0 ΔA0 txt A1 ΔA1 txtτ A2 ΔA2 t B0 ΔB0 txt B1 ΔB1 txtτ B2 ΔB2 t xt φt, t ∈ −τ2 , 0, t tτ t tτ xsds 2.1 xsds dBt, 2.2 Journal of Applied Mathematics 3 where xt ∈ Rn is the state vector; Bt is a standard scalar Brownian motion defined on a complete probability space Ω, F, P, we assume E{dBt} 0, E{d2 Bt} dt. φt is any given initial data in L2F0 −τ, 0; Rn . Denote ηt xt − Dxtτ , tτ t − τt, tτ1 t − τ1 , tτ2 t − τ2 , τt is time-varying delays, satisfying τ̇t τ < ∞, 0 τ1 τt τ2 < ∞, δ τ2 − τ1 . 2.3 Remark 2.1. It should be noted that system 2.1-2.2 encompasses many state space models of neutral delay systems, which can be used to represent many important physical systems such as a large class of distributed networks containing lossless transmission lines, population ecology, heat exchangers, wind tunnel, and water resources systems see 27– 29 and the references therein. For example, signal transformation cannot be finished in time due to the finite signal propagation speed in distributed networks containing lossless transmission lines, or to the finite switching speed of amplifiers in electronic networks, so the models only depending on the discrete time delays are not complete, the more exact models should include the distributed time delays, and the delays are found both in the states and in the derivatives of the states. Remark 2.2. It is worth pointing out that, when a time-varying delay appears, it is usually assumed that τ̇t < 1 is satisfied and the lower bound of the delay is restricted to be zero in the literature 5, 7, 8 and so forth. However, in this paper, we only require τ̇t τ, in addition, the range of delay may vary in a range for which the lower bound is not restricted to be zero. Therefore, the time-varying delay in this paper is more general. Ai , Bj , i, j 0, 1, 2, are known real constant matrices of appropriate dimensions; ΔAi , ΔBj , i, j 0, 1, 2, are unknown matrices representing time-varying parameter uncertainties. For the sake of convenience, we assume that the uncertainties are norm-bounded and can be described as ΔAi t ΔBi t GFt Si Ti , 2.4 where Si , Ti , i 0, 1, 2, are known real constant matrices, Ft is an unknown real timevarying function with appropriate dimension satisfying F T tFt I. 2.5 It is assumed that the elements of Ft are Lebesgue measurable. Throughout this paper, the following assumption, definitions, and lemmas will be used to develop our results. Assumption 2.3. The difference operator matrix D satisfies D < 1. Definition 2.4 see 1. The neutral stochastic delay system 2.1-2.2 is said to be meansquare exponentially stable if there is a pair of positive constants α, β such that E xT txt αe−βt sup E φθ . −τ2 θ0 2.6 4 Journal of Applied Mathematics Lemma 2.5 see 30. r If there exists a vector function vt : 0, r → r T v sP vs ds and vs ds are well defined, then the following inequality: 0 0 r Rn such that r T r vsds P vsds r vT sP vsds 0 0 2.7 0 holds for any pair of symmetric positive definite matrix P ∈ R n×n and r > 0. Lemma 2.6 see 31. For any vectors x, y ∈ Rn , matrices A, D, E, P , and F are real matrices of appropriate dimensions with P > 0 and F T F I, the following inequalities hold: 1 2xT DFEy −1 xT DDT x yT EET y; 2 for any scalar > 0 such that P − DDT > 0, then A DFET P −1 A DFE −1 ET E AT P − DDT −1 A; 3 2xT y xT P −1 x yT P y. 3. Main Results In this section, a robustly stochastically exponentially stable criterion for the uncertain linear neutral stochastic distributed delayed system Σ will be established by applying the Lyapunov-Krasovskii theory and free-weighting matrices method. For convenience, define a new state variable ft A0 ΔA0 txt A1 ΔA1 txtτ A2 ΔA2 t t tτ xsds 3.1 and a new perturbation variable gt B0 ΔB0 txt B1 ΔB1 txtτ B2 ΔB2 t t tτ xsds. 3.2 Then, system 2.1 becomes dxt − Dxtτ ftdt gtdBt. 3.3 Journal of Applied Mathematics 5 Applying Leibniz-Newton formula to 2.1, it yields the following zero equations which will be used in our main result: 2ξ tN xt − Dxtτ − xtτ Dxtτ − τtτ − T t tτ fsds − 2ξ tH xtτ1 − Dxtτ1 − τtτ1 − xtτ Dxtτ − τtτ − T 2ξ tM xtτ − Dxtτ − τtτ − xtτ2 Dxtτ2 − τtτ2 − T tτ 1 tτ tτ tτ2 t tτ gsdBs 0, fsds − fsds − tτ 1 tτ tτ tτ2 gsdBs 0, gsdBs 0, 3.4 where N, H, and M are any matrices with appropriate dimensions, and ξ t xT t, xT tτ , T 1 τ2 t tτ xT sds, xT tτ1 , xT tτ2 , 3.5 xT tτ1 − τtτ1 , xT tτ2 − τtτ2 , xT tτ − τtτ . With zero equations 3.4 above, we obtain the following theorem. Theorem 3.1. For given scalars 0 τ1 τ2 and τ, system Σ is robustly stochastically exponentially stable for all time-varying delays satisfying 2.3 and for all admissible uncertainties satisfying 2.4 and 2.5, if there exist symmetric positive definite matrices P > 0, Ri > 0, i 0, 1, 2, . . . , 10, scalars j , j 1, 2, 3 and any matrices N, H, M with appropriate dimensions, such that the following LMI 3.6 holds: Φ Φ1 Φ2 ∗ Φ3 where ⎞ Θ P G V1T Z 0 V2T U 0 ⎜ ∗ − I 0 0 0 0 ⎟ ⎟ ⎜ 1 ⎟ ⎜ −Z ZG 0 0 ⎟ ⎜∗ ∗ Φ1 ⎜ ⎟, ⎜∗ ∗ 0 ⎟ ∗ −2 I 0 ⎟ ⎜ ⎝∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ −U UG ⎠ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ −3 I ⎛ < 0, 3.6 6 Journal of Applied Mathematics Φ2 N H M N H M , Φ3 diag −R7 −R8 −R7 − R8 −R9 −R10 −R9 − R10 . Θ Γ Ψ ΨT , V1 A0 A1 A2 0 0 0 0 0 , V2 B0 B1 B2 0 0 0 0 0 , T P P −P D 0 0 0 0 0 0 , T N N T , 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 , Z τ2 R7 δR8 , T H H T , 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 , U P τ2 R9 δR10 , T M MT , 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 , 3.7 with ⎛ ⎞ Γ11 Γ12 Γ13 0 0 0 0 0 ⎜ ∗ Γ22 Γ23 0 0 0 0 0 ⎟ ⎜ ⎟ ⎜∗ ∗ Γ 0 0 0 0 0 ⎟ 33 ⎜ ⎟ ⎜ ∗ ∗ ∗ −R 0 0 0 0 ⎟ ⎜ ⎟ 1 Γ⎜ ⎟, ⎜∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ −R3 0 0 0 ⎟ ⎜ ⎟ ⎜∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ Γ66 0 0 ⎟ ⎜ ⎟ ⎝∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ Γ77 0 ⎠ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ Γ88 Ψ N M − H − ND I 0 H −M −HD MD N H − MD , 3.8 Γ11 P A0 AT0 P R1 R2 R3 τ2 R0 1 2 ST0 S0 3 T0T T0 , Γ12 P A1 − AT0 P D 1 2 ST0 S1 3 T0T T1 , Γ13 P A2 1 2 ST0 S2 3 T0T T2 , Γ22 R4 R5 R6 − 1 − τR2 − DT P A1 − AT1 P D 1 2 ST1 S1 3 T1T T1 , Γ23 − DT P A2 1 2 ST1 S2 3 T1T T2 , Γ66 R4 , Γ77 R6 , Γ33 −τ2 R0 1 2 ST2 S2 3 T2T T2 , Γ88 1 − τR5 . Proof. Choose a Lyapunov-Krasovskii functional candidate as V t, ξt 4 Vi t, ξt , i0 where V0 t, xt xt − Dxtτ T P xt − Dxtτ ; V1 t, xt t tτ1 xs xs − τs T R1 0 0 R4 xs ds xs − τs 3.9 Journal of Applied Mathematics V2 t, xt V4 t, xt t T xs R2 0 xs ds xs − τs xs − τs 0 R5 tτ t t tτ2 V3 t, xt τ2 7 tτ2 xs xs − τs T R3 0 xs ds; xs − τs 0 R6 s − t − τ2 xT sR0 xsds; 0 t −τ2 tθ 0 t −τ2 tθ f T sR7 fsds dθ δ −τ1 t −τ2 tθ f T sR8 fsds dθ; −τ1 t tr g T sR9 gs ds dθ tr g T sR10 gs ds dθ. −τ2 tθ 3.10 According to Itô’s differential formula 1, the stochastic differential is dV t, xt LV t, xt dt 2xt − Dxtτ T P gtdBt, 3.11 where LV t, xt dt 2xt − Dxtτ T P ft gtT P gt 4 V̇i t, xt . i1 Direct computations give V̇1 t, xt xT tR1 R2 R3 xt − xT tτ1 R1 xtτ1 − xT tτ2 R3 xtτ2 xT tτ R4 R5 R6 − 1 − τR2 xtτ − xT tτ1 − τtτ1 R4 xtτ1 − τtτ1 − 1 − τxT tτ − τtτ R5 xtτ − τtτ − xT tτ2 − τtτ2 R6 xtτ2 − τtτ2 by τ̇t τ 3.12 8 Journal of Applied Mathematics V̇2 t, xt τ2 xT tR0 xt − t tτ xT sR0 xsds ≤ τ2 x tR0 xt − T 1 τ2 t tτ T xsds τ2 R0 1 τ2 t tτ xsds ; by Lemma 2.5, V̇3 t, xt f T tT τ22 R7 δ2 R8 ft − τ2 t tτ2 tτ T f s R7 fsds − δ T V̇4 t, xt tr g T tT τ2 R9 δR10 gt − t tτ2 1 tτ2 f T sT R8 fsds; tτ 1 tr g T sT R9 gs ds − tr g T sT R10 gs ds. tτ2 3.13 By 1 of Lemma 2.6, for any scalar 1 > 0, we have 2xt − Dxtτ T P ft 2ξT tP V1 ξt 2ξT tP GFtV3 ξt ≤ 2ξT tP V1 ξt 1−1 ξT tP G 1 ξT tV3T , 3.14 and by 2 of Lemma 2.6, for any 2 > 0 satisfying τ22 R7 δ2 R8 −1 − 2−1 GGT > 0, we have f T t τ22 R7 δ2 R8 ft ξT tV1 GFtV3 T Z ≤ξ T tV1T Z −1 − 2−1 GGT −1 3.15 2 ξ T tV3T . For any scalar 3 > 0 satisfying τ2 R9 δR10 −1 − 3−1 GGT > 0, the following inequality holds: tr g T tP τ2 R9 δR10 gt g T tP τ2 R9 δR10 gt ξT tV2 GFtV4 T U −1 ≤ ξT tV2T U−1 − 3−1 GGT 3 ξT tV4T . 3.16 Journal of Applied Mathematics 9 In addition, it follows from 3.4, 3 of Lemma 2.6 and Lemma 2.5 that t −2ξ tN T fsds ξ tτ T tNR−1 7 t tτ ξT tNR−1 7 τ2 −2ξ tH T tτ tτ − 2ξT tM 1 fsds ξ T ξ T tτ tτ2 ≤ ξ tMR7 R8 T −2ξ tN −2ξ tH T tτ tτ tτ −2ξT tM 1 tHR−1 8 −1 ξ tMR7 R8 t −1 gsdBs ≤ ξ gsdBs ≤ ξ tτ tτ2 t f T sR7 fsds, tτ t τ 1 tτ δ tτ R7 1 tτ T fsds R8 f T sR8 fsds, fsds T T tHR−1 8 T fsds T T t τ tτ tτ2 tτ2 T fsds R7 R8 f T sτ2 R7 δR8 fsds, tNR−1 9 tHR−1 10 t T tτ t τ tτ 1 gsdBs R9 , T gsdBs R10 , gsdBs ≤ ξT tMR9 R10 −1 t τ tτ2 T gsdBs R9 R10 . 3.17 Note that ⎧ ⎨ t E gsdBs ⎩ tτ ⎧ ⎨ tτ1 E gsdBs ⎩ tτ T ⎫ ⎬ t R9 tr g T sR9 gs ds, ⎭ tτ T ⎫ ⎬ tτ1 g T sR10 gs ds, R10 ⎭ tτ 3.18 10 ⎧ ⎨ tτ E gsdBs ⎩ tτ 2 Journal of Applied Mathematics ⎫ T ⎬ tτ 3.19 g T sR9 R10 gs ds. R9 R10 ⎭ tτ 2 Applying inequalities from 3.13 to 3.19 to 3.12, it yields 3.20 Lω V t, ξt ξT tΛξt, where −1 −1 T Λ Θ 1−1 P G P G V1T Z−1 − 2−1 GGT V1 V2T U−1 − 3−1 GGT V2 −1 −1 −1 −1 T N T H R−1 MT N R−1 7 R9 8 R10 H M R7 R8 R9 R10 3.21 with Θ being defined in Theorem 3.1. By applying the Schur complement to 3.6 results in Λ < 0, which implies LV t, xt ξT tΛξt < 0 3.22 LV t, xt −νξtξt −νxT txt, 3.23 therefore, where ν λm {−Λ}. Now, integrating both sides of 3.23 from 0 to t > 0, and then taking the expectation, we obtain t t st E V s, xs |s0 E LV s, xs ds −ν E xT sxs ds. 0 3.24 0 On the other hand, it follows from 3.9 that E{V t, xt } ≥ E ηT tP ηt ≥ λm {P }E ηT tηt . 3.25 Therefore, by 3.24 and 3.25 t T λm {P }E η tηt E{V 0, x0 } − ν E xT sxs ds. 0 3.26 Journal of Applied Mathematics 11 Since ρD < 1, choose > 0 such that eτ2 ρ2 D < 1, which implies ρ2 D < e−τ2 < 1, denote 0 e−τ2 . Let σ be any nonnegative real number. For all 0 t σ, it follows from 1 of Lemma 2.6 that E ηT tηt ≥ ExT txt − 2E xT tDxtτ ExT tτ DT Dxtτ ≥ 1 − 0 ExT txt − 0−1 − 1 ExT tτ DT Dxtτ . 3.27 Hence ExT txt 1 1 E ηT tηt E xT tτ DT Dxtτ . 1 − 0 0 3.28 By 3.25, 3.27, and 3.28, we then derive that for all 0 t σ, ExT txt 1 1 sup E ηT tηt sup E xT tτ DT Dxtτ 1 − 0 0tσ 0 0tσ λ {D D} 1 M sup E ηT tηt sup E xT txt 0 1 − 0 0tσ −τ2 tσ D2 1 sup E ηT tηt sup E xT txt . 0 −τ2 tσ 1 − 0 0tσ 3.29 However, this holds for all −τ t 0 as well. Therefore, sup E xT txt −τ2 tσ ρ2 D 1 sup E ηT tηt sup E xT txt . 0 −τ2 tσ 1 − 0 0tσ 3.30 Since ρ2 D < 0 and P > 0, we obtain that 1 − 0 0 − ρ2 D sup E xT txt sup E ηT tηt . 0 −τ2 tσ 0tσ 3.31 By supremum property, sup E xT txt ≥ sup E xT txt . −τ2 tσ 0tσ 3.32 By 3.31 and 3.32, 1 − 0 0 − ρ2 D sup E xT txt sup E ηT tηt . 0 0tσ 0tσ 3.33 12 Journal of Applied Mathematics For any t ≥ 0, it follows from 3.26, 3.33 and σ being an arbitrary nonnegative real number that t T sup E x txt μE{V 0, x0 } − νμ E xT sxs ds. t≥0 3.34 0 Since σ is an arbitrary nonnegative number, we have t E xT txt μE{V 0, x0 } − νμ E xT sxs ds, 3.35 ∀t ≥ 0. 0 Then, applying Gronwall-Bellman lemma to 3.35, it yields E xT txt μE{V 0, x0 }e−νμt . 3.36 Note that there exists a scalar α > 0 such that μE{V 0, x0 } α sup E φθ . 3.37 −τ2 θ0 Denote μ 0 1 − 0 0 − ρ2 Dλm {P }−1 > 0, β νμ > 0, then we have E xT txt αe−βt sup E φθ . 3.38 −τ2 θ0 By Definition 2.4, system Σ is robustly stochastically mean-square exponentially stable. Remark 3.2. Theorem 3.1 provides a delay-dependent condition with a new LyapunovKrasovskii functional, which makes full use of the relationship among the time-varying delay, its upper and lower bounds, and their difference. It is noted that this condition is obtained by free-weighting matrices techniques; model transformation is not resorted to in the derivation of Theorem 3.1. Thus, the conservatism caused by model transformation will be reduced. If τ1 τ2 τ0 , then τ 0, τt τ0 . Applying Leibniz-Newton formula to 2.1, it yields the following zero equations: 2ζ tL xt − Dxt − τ0 − xt − τ0 Dxt − 2τ0 − T t tτ0 fsds − t tτ0 gsdBs 0, 3.39 where L is any matrices with appropriate dimension, and 1 ζ t x t, x t − τ0 , τ0 T T T t t−τ0 x sds, x t − 2τ0 . T T With zero equations 3.39 above, we obtain the following corollary. 3.40 Journal of Applied Mathematics 13 Corollary 3.3. For given constant delay τ0 , system Σ is robustly stochastically exponentially stable for all admissible uncertainties satisfying 2.4 and 2.5, if there exist symmetric positive definite matrices P0 > 0, Z0 > 0, Z1 > 0, Z2 > 0, Z3 > 0, Z4 > 0, scalars i , i 1, 2, 3 and any matrices L with appropriate dimensions such that the following LMI 3.41 holds: ⎛ ⎞ Ξ P 0 G τ02 W1T Z3 0 τ0 W2T Z4 0 L L ⎜∗ −1 I 0 0 0 0 0 0 ⎟ ⎜ ⎟ ⎜∗ ∗ 2 2 0 0 0 0 ⎟ −τ0 Z3 τ0 Z3 G ⎜ ⎟ ⎜ ⎟ 0 0 0 0 ⎟ ∗ −2 I ⎜∗ ∗ Ω⎜ ⎟ < 0, ⎜∗ ∗ 0 ⎟ ∗ ∗ −τ0 Z4 τ0 Z4 G 0 ⎜ ⎟ ⎜∗ ∗ 0 0 ⎟ ∗ ∗ ∗ −3 I ⎜ ⎟ ⎝∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ −Z3 0 ⎠ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗I 0 −Z4 3.41 where Ξ Π Υ ΥT , W1 A0 A1 A2 0 , T P 0 P0 −DP0 0 0 , W 2 B0 B1 B2 0 , T L LT 0 0 0 , 3.42 with ⎛ ⎞ Π11 Π12 Π13 0 ⎜ ∗ Π22 Π23 0 ⎟ ⎟, Π⎜ ⎝ ∗ ∗ Π33 0 ⎠ ∗ ∗ ∗ −Z2 Υ L −LD I 0 LD , Π11 P0 A0 AT0 P0 Z1 Z2 τ0 Z0 1 2 ST0 S0 3 T0T T0 , Π12 P0 A1 − AT0 DP0 1 2 ST0 S1 3 T0T T1 , 3.43 Π13 P0 A2 1 2 ST0 S2 3 T0T T2 , Π22 − Z1 − P0 DT A1 − AT1 DP0 1 2 ST1 S1 3 T1T T1 , Π23 − P0 DT A2 1 2 ST1 S2 3 T1T T2 , Π33 −τ0 Z0 1 2 ST2 S2 3 T2T T2 . If A2 B2 0, ΔA2 t ΔB2 t 0, D 0, then, system 2.1 becomes dxt ftdt gtdBt, 3.44 where ft A0 ΔA0 txt A1 ΔA1 txtτ , gt B0 ΔB0 txt B1 ΔB1 txtτ . 3.45 14 Journal of Applied Mathematics Applying Leibniz-Newton formula to 3.44, it yields the following zero equations which will be used in our main result t t T ' ( fsds − gsdBs 0, 2ξ tN xt − xtτ − tτ tτ tτ tτ 1 1 T ' ( 2ξ tH xtτ1 − xtτ − fsds − gsdBs 0, 'T ( xtτ − xtτ2 − 2ξ tM tτ tτ tτ tτ tτ2 fsds − tτ2 3.46 gsdBs 0, where N, H, and M are any matrices with appropriate dimensions, and ξ'T t xT t, xT tτ , xT tτ1 , xT tτ2 . 3.47 With zero equation 3.46 above, we obtain the following corollary. Corollary 3.4. For given scalars 0 τ1 τ2 and τ, system 3.44 is robustly stochastically exponentially stable for all time-varying delays satisfying 2.3 and for all admissible uncertainties satisfying 2.4 and 2.5, if there exist symmetric positive definite matrices P > 0, Ri > 0, i ( H, (M ( with appropriate dimensions, such that 1, 2, . . . , 10, scalars j , j 1, 2, 3 and any matrices N, the following LMI 3.48 holds: ' Φ '1 Φ ∗ '2 Φ '3 Φ < 0, 3.48 where ⎛ Θ P' G ⎜ ∗ − I ⎜ 1 ⎜ ∗ ∗ ⎜ '1 ⎜ Φ ⎜∗ ∗ ⎜ ⎝∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ '2 N ) Φ ⎞ V'1T Z 0 V'2T U 0 0 0 0 0 ⎟ ⎟ ⎟ −Z ZG 0 0 ⎟ ⎟, 0 ⎟ ∗ −2 I 0 ⎟ ∗ ∗ −U UG ⎠ ∗ ∗ ∗ −3 I ) M ) N ) H ) M ) , H ' 3 diag −R7 −R8 −R7 −R8 −R9 −R10 −R9 −R10 , Φ ' Γ ' Ψ ' T, 'Ψ Θ V'1 A0 A1 0 0 , V'2 B0 B1 0 0 , T P' P 0 0 0 , T ) N (T , 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 , N Z τ2 R7 δR8 , T ) H (T , 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 , H U P τ2 R9 δR10 , T ) M (T , 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 , M 3.49 Journal of Applied Mathematics 15 with ⎞ ⎛ ' 12 0 ' 11 Γ 0 Γ ⎟ ⎜ ' 22 0 ∗ Γ 0 ⎟ '⎜ Γ ⎟, ⎜ ⎝ ∗ ∗ −R1 0 ⎠ ∗ ∗ ∗ −R3 ' N ( M (−H (−N ( H ( −M ( , Ψ 3.50 ' 11 P A0 AT P R1 R2 R3 1 2 ST S0 3 T T T0 , Γ 0 0 0 ' 12 P A1 1 2 ST S1 3 T T T1 , Γ 0 0 ' 22 −1 − τR2 1 2 ST S1 3 T T T1 . Γ 1 1 If τ1 τ2 τ0 , A2 B2 0, ΔAi t ΔBi t 0, i 0, 1, 2, then τ 0, τt τ0 and 2.1 becomes * dxt − Dxt − τ0 ftdt g* tdBt, 3.51 where * A0 xt A1 xt − τ0 , ft g* t B0 xt B1 xt − τ0 . 3.52 Applying Leibniz-Newton formula to 3.51, it yields the following zero equations t t * * g* sdBs 0, 2ς tL xt − Dxt − τ0 − xt − τ0 Dxt − 2τ0 − fsds − T tτ0 tτ0 3.53 * is any matrices with appropriate dimension, and where L ςT t xT t, xT t − τ0 , xT t − 2τ0 . 3.54 With zero equations 3.53 above, we obtain the following corollary. Corollary 3.5. For given constant delay τ0 , system 3.51 is robustly stochastically exponentially stable, if there exist symmetric positive definite matrices P0 > 0, Z1 > 0, Z2 > 0, Z3 > 0, Z4 > 0, any * with appropriate dimensions, such that the following LMI 3.41 holds: matrices L ⎛ ⎞ ) T Z3 τ0 W ) T Z4 L ' ' ' τ 2W Ξ L 0 2 1 ⎜∗ −τ 2 Z 0 0 0 ⎟ ⎜ ⎟ 0 3 ⎜ ⎟ ' ⎜∗ Ω 0 0 ⎟ < 0, ∗ −τ0 Z4 ⎜ ⎟ ⎝∗ ∗ ∗ −Z3 0 ⎠ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ −Z4 3.55 16 Journal of Applied Mathematics where )1 A0 A1 0 , W ' Π ' Υ ' Υ ' T, Ξ T ' L *T 0 0 , L )2 B0 B1 0 , W 3.56 with ⎞ ' 12 0 ' 11 Π Π ' ⎜ ' 22 0 ⎟ Π ⎠, ⎝ ∗ Π ∗ ∗ −Z2 ⎛ ' L * −LD * * Υ , I LD ' 11 P0 A0 AT P0 Z1 Z2 , Π 0 3.57 ' 12 P0 A1 − AT DP0 , Π 0 ' 22 −Z1 − P0 DT A1 − AT DP0 . Π 1 Deterministic systems may be regarded as special class of stochastic systems, let Bi 0, ΔBi 0, i 0, 1, 2, then system 2.1-2.2 becomes the following uncertain neutral system with both discrete and distributed interval time-varying delays Σ0 : ẋt − Dẋtτ A0 ΔA0 txt A1 ΔA1 txtτ A2 ΔA2 t xt φt, t t ∈ −τ2 , 0. tτ xsds, 3.58 3.59 Applying Leibniz-Newton formula to 3.58, it yields the following zero equations which will be used in our main result: 2ξ tN xt − Dxtτ − xtτ Dxtτ − τtτ − T t tτ fsds 0, 2ξ tH xtτ1 − Dxtτ1 − τtτ1 − xtτ Dxtτ − τtτ − T 2ξ tM xtτ − Dxtτ − τtτ − xtτ2 Dxtτ2 − τtτ2 − T tτ 1 tτ tτ tτ2 fsds 0, 3.60 fsds 0, where N, H, and M are any matrices with appropriate dimensions, and ξt is defined in 3.5. With zero equations 3.60 above, we obtain Corollary 3.6. For given scalars 0 τ1 τ2 and τ, system Σ0 is robustly stochastically exponentially stable for all time-varying delays satisfying 2.3 and for all admissible uncertainties satisfying 2.4 and 2.5, if there exist symmetric positive definite matrices P > 0, Ri > 0, Journal of Applied Mathematics 17 i 0, 1, 2, . . . , 8, scalars j , j 1, 2, 3 and any matrices N, H, M with appropriate dimensions, such that the following LMI 3.61 holds: ⎞ ⎛ Θ P G V1T Z 0 N H M ⎟ ⎜ ∗ − I 0 0 0 0 0 1 ⎟ ⎜ ⎟ ⎜∗ ∗ −Z ZG 0 0 0 ⎟ ⎜ ⎟ ⎜ Φ ⎜∗ ∗ ⎟ < 0, 0 0 ∗ −2 I 0 ⎟ ⎜ ⎟ ⎜∗ ∗ 0 0 ∗ ∗ −R 7 ⎟ ⎜ ⎠ ⎝∗ ∗ 0 ∗ ∗ ∗ −R8 ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ −R7 − R8 where Θ Γ Ψ ΨT , V1 A0 A1 A2 0 0 0 0 0 , T P P −P D 0 0 0 0 0 0 , Z τ2 R7 δR8 , 3.61 V2 B0 B1 B2 0 0 0 0 0 , U P τ2 R9 δR10 , 3.62 with ⎛ ⎞ Γ11 Γ12 Γ13 0 0 0 0 0 ⎜ ∗ Γ22 Γ23 0 0 0 0 0 ⎟ ⎜ ⎟ ⎜∗ ∗ Γ 0 0 0 0 0 ⎟ 33 ⎜ ⎟ ⎜ ∗ ∗ ∗ −R 0 0 0 0 ⎟ ⎜ ⎟ 1 Γ⎜ ⎟, ⎜∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ −R3 0 0 0 ⎟ ⎜ ⎟ ⎜∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ Γ66 0 0 ⎟ ⎜ ⎟ ⎝∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ Γ77 0 ⎠ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ Γ88 Ψ N M − H − ND I 0 H −M −HD MD N H − MD , 3.63 Γ11 P A0 AT0 P R1 R2 R3 τ2 R0 1 2 ST0 S0 3 T0T T0 , Γ12 P A1 − AT0 P D 1 2 ST0 S1 3 T0T T1 , Γ13 P A2 1 2 ST0 S2 3 T0T T2 , Γ22 R4 R5 R6 − 1 − τR2 − DT P A1 − AT1 P D 1 2 ST1 S1 3 T1T T1 , Γ23 − DT P A2 1 2 ST1 S2 3 T1T T2 , Γ66 − R4 , Γ77 −R6 , Γ33 −τ2 R0 1 2 ST2 S2 3 T2T T2 , Γ88 −1 − τ R5 . Proof. Choose a Lyapunov-Krasovskii functional candidate as V t, ξt 3 Vi t, ξt , i0 where Vi t, ξt , i 0, 1, 2, 3 are defined in 3.9. It can be concluded from Theorem 3.1. 3.64 18 Journal of Applied Mathematics If τ1 τ2 τ0 , A2 0, Bi ΔAi t ΔBi t 0, i 0, 1, 2, then τ 0, τt τ0 and 2.1 becomes ẋt − Dẋt − τ0 A0 xt A1 xt − τ0 . 3.65 Applying Leibniz-Newton formula to 3.65, it yields the following zero equations: t * * fsds 0, 2ς tL xt − Dxt − τ0 − xt − τ0 Dxt − 2τ0 − T tτ0 3.66 * A0 xt A1 xt − τ0 , and * is any matrices with appropriate dimension, ft where L ςT t xT t, xT t − τ0 , xT t − 2τ0 . 3.67 With zero equations 3.66 above, we obtain the following corollary. Corollary 3.7. For given constant delay τ0 , system 3.65 is robustly stochastically exponentially stable, if there exist symmetric positive definite matrices P0 > 0, Z1 > 0, Z2 > 0, Z3 > 0, Z4 > 0, and * with appropriate dimensions, such that the following LMI 3.68 holds: any matrices L ⎞ ) T Z3 Ľ ' τ 2W Ľ Ξ 0 1 ⎟ ⎜ ∗ −τ02 Z3 0 0 ⎟ ' ⎜ Ω ⎟ < 0, ⎜ ⎝∗ ∗ −Z3 0 ⎠ ∗ ∗ ∗ −Z4 ⎛ 3.68 where ' Π ' Υ ' Υ ' T, Ξ )1 A0 A1 0 , W T *T 0 0 , Ľ L 3.69 with ⎞ ' 12 0 ' 11 Π Π ' ⎜ ' 22 0 ⎟ Π ⎠, ⎝ ∗ Π ∗ ∗ −Z2 ⎛ ' L * −LD * * Υ , I LD ' 11 P0 A0 AT P0 Z1 Z2 , Π 0 ' 22 −Z1 − P0 DT A1 − AT DP0 . Π 1 ' 12 P0 A1 − AT DP0 , Π 0 3.70 Journal of Applied Mathematics 19 0.15 0.1 0.05 0 −0.02 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 Time (s) x21 x22 Figure 1: Mean-square exponential stability of the neutral stochastic system with interval time-varying delay. Table 1: Allowable lower bounds and upper bounds for different τ. τ τ2 τ1 δ 0.3 1.5970 0.1500 1.4470 0.6 1.6724 0.3000 1.3724 1.0 1.8719 0.5000 1.3719 1.2 1.9717 0.6000 1.3717 1.5 2.1215 0.7500 1.3715 1.52 2.1315 0.7600 1.3715 4. Numerical Examples Example 4.1. Consider the uncertain neutral linear stochastic time-varying delay system Σ with A0 −2.0 0.0 , 0.0 −1.9 B0 −0.1 I, A1 −1.0 0.0 , −1.0 −1.0 B1 0.2I, A2 −I, B2 0.1I, G 0.1I, D −0.5I, Si Ti 0.1I, 4.1 i 0, 1, 2, and τt α exp−1/1 t2 , 0 α 2.1315, set α 1, in this situation, τ1 0.3679, τ2 T 1, τ 0.7358, δ 0.6321. Set φθ x1T θ, x2T θ , where x1 θ, x2 θ are random initial values with zero mean and variance 1.0, and Ft sint, the trajectories of x1 t and x2 t are shown in Figure 1. According to Theorem 3.1, the lower bounds and the upper bounds on the time delay to guarantee the system is robustly stochastically mean-square exponentially stable are listed in Table 1. Example 4.2. Consider the uncertain linear stochastic system 3.44 with A0 −2.0 0.0 , 0.0 −0.9 B0 B1 0, A1 G 0.2I, −1.0 0.0 , −1.0 −1.0 Si Ti I, 4.2 i 0, 1, 2. 20 Journal of Applied Mathematics Table 2: Allowable upper bounds of τ2 for different τ. τ Yan et al. 15 Corollary 3.4 0.3 0.7288 0.9012 0.5 0.5252 0.7498 0.9 0.1489 0.5640 Table 3: Allowable upper bounds of τ2 for different c. c Fridman and Shaked 19 Corollary 3.7 0 4.47 4.47 0.1 3.49 4.05 0.3 2.06 3.29 0.5 1.14 2.58 0.7 0.54 1.85 0.9 0.13 0.92 According to Corollary 3.4, for τ1 0, the upper bounds on the time delay to guarantee the system is robustly stochastically mean-square exponentially stable are listed in Table 2. At the same time, Table 2 also lists the upper bounds obtained from the criterion in 15. Example 4.3. Consider the uncertain neutral linear stochastic system 3.51 with 0.5 0.0 , 0.0 0.3 −0.2 0.0 D , −0.95 0.2 A0 A1 −1.0 0.0 , −1.0 −1.0 B0 0.2I, 4.3 B1 0.3I. If Corollary 3.5 in this paper is applied, the maximal admissible delay τM of this example is τM 0.6001. Example 4.4. Consider the uncertain neutral linear stochastic system 3.65 with A0 −2.0 0.0 , 0.0 −0.9 A1 −1.0 0.0 , −1.0 −1.0 D c 0 , 0 c 0 c < 1. 4.4 The maximum upper bound τM for this system in case of different cs is listed in Table 3, which shows that the results obtained by the methods proposed in this paper are less conservative than that in 19. 5. Conclusion The mean-square exponential stability for uncertain neutral stochastic system with both discrete and distributed time-varying delays has been investigated in this paper. Sufficient conditions have been established without ignoring any terms in the weak infinitesimal operator of Lyapunov-Krasovskii functional by considering the relationship among the timevarying delay, its upper bounds, and their difference. The usual restriction that τ̇t < 1 has been removed by free-weight matrices method. 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