Sampled-data control for linear time-delay distributed parameter systems

Some real systems have spatiotemporal dynamics and are time-delay distributed parameter systems (DPSs). The existence of time-delay may lead to system instability. The analysis and design of DPSs with time-delay is essentially more complicated. To take into account the factor of time-delay and fully enjoy the benefits of the digital technology in control engineering, it is a theoretical and practical value to consider the sampled-data control (SDC) problem of DPSs with time-delay. However, there are few attempts to solve the SDC problem of time-delay DPSs. In this paper, we introduce a SDC for linear time-delay DPSs described by parabolic partial differential equations (PDEs). A SDC design is developed in the formulation of spatial linear matrix inequalities (LMIs) by constructing an appropriate Lyapunov functional, which can stabilize exponentially the time-delay DPSs. This stabilization condition can be applied to either slowing-varying time delay or fast-varying one. Finally, simulation results of a numerical example are provided to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.