Sliding mode control synthesis of uncertain time-delay systems

International audienceSiding mode control synthesis is developped for a class of nonlinear time-delay systems. The synthesis is based on a new delay-dependent stability criterion. The controller constructed proves to be robust against sufficiently small delay variations and external disturbances. An admissible upperbound such that the corresponding closed-cloop system remains globally asymptotically stable for each delay value less than this upperbound is derived. Performance issues of the controller are illustrated in a simulation study