Asymptotic stability analysis and model reduction for spatially interconnected time-delay systems

This paper deals with problems of asymptotic stability analysis and model reduction for spatially interconnected continuous time-delay systems. The well-posedness, asymptotic stability, and contractiveness of spatially interconnected continuous-time state-delay systems are appropriately defined. The Lyapunov–Krasovskii method is extended for asymptotic stability analysis of spatially interconnected continuous time-delay systems in infinite-dimensional space. A sufficient condition based on the given system matrices is presented in terms of linear matrix inequalities to check the well-posedness, asymptotic stability, and contractiveness. We then obtain a sufficient condition for the existence of a delay-free reduced-order system for a given spatially interconnected continuous time-delay system. Employing the elimination lemma and the cone complementary linearization algorithm, we can obtain a delay-free reduced-order system. Finally, two examples are used to demonstrate the effectiveness and applicability of the proposed method.