Improved stabilization method for networked control systems with variable transmission delays and packet dropout

This paper investigates the problem of stability analysis and stabilization for networked control systems with the network-induced delay and data dropout. In order to obtain less conservative results, a novel augmented Lyapunov-Krasovskii functional is introduced and new free-weighting matrices are employed to make some extra degrees of freedom in the sufficient stabilizability condition. The gain of the memoryless state-feedback controller is computed by solving a set of linear matrix inequalities (LMIs). Illustrative examples are given to verify the applicability and outperformance of the proposed method compared to the existing approaches in the literature.