Stabilization of nonlinear time-delay systems: Distributed-delay dependent impulsive control

Abstract This technical note studies impulsive stabilization of general nonlinear systems with time-delay. Distributed time-delay is considered in the proposed nonlinear impulsive controller. Using Lyapunov–Razumikhin method, an exponential stability criterion is constructed, which is then applied to investigate stabilization of a linear time-delay system under linear distributed-delay dependent impulsive control. Sufficient conditions on the system parameters, impulsive control gains, impulsive instants and distributed delays are obtained in the form of an inequality for global exponential stability. In these results, it is shown that an unstable time-delay system can be successfully stabilized by distributed-delay dependent impulses. It is worth noting that the proposed impulsive controllers are independent of the system states at each impulsive instant, and the states with distributed delays play the key role in the stabilization process. A numerical example is provided to demonstrate the efficiency of the main results.