Time-delay occurs in many dynamical systems such as biological systems,
chemical systems, metallurgical processing systems, nuclear reactor,
long transmission lines in pneumatic, hydraulic systems and electrical
networks. Especially, in recent years, time-delay which exists in
networked control s-
temshasbroughtmorecomplexproblemintoanewresearcharea.Frequently,
itisasourceofthegenerationofoscillation, instabilityandpoorperformance.
Considerable e?ort has been applied to di?erent aspects of linear
time-delay systems during recent years. Because the introduction of the
delay factor renders the system analysis more complicated, in addition
to the di?culties caused by the perturbation or uncertainties, in the
control of time-delay s- tems, the problems of robust stability and
robust stabilization are of great importance. This book presents some
basic theories of stability and stabilization of systems with
time-delay, which are related to the main results in this book. More
attention will be paid on synthesis of systems with time-delay. That is,
sliding mode control of systems with time-delay; networked control
systems with time-delay; networked data fusion with random delay