Stability Analysis of Time-Delay Systems Based on a Power of the Monodromy Operator

This paper studies stability analysis of linear time-invariant time-delay feedback systems consisting of a finite-dimensional system and a pure delay. The continuous-time state transition is described by the monodromy operator in discrete-time through the lifting technique, and a stability condition in terms of its spectral radius is first restated in terms of the norm of a power of the operator. Quasi-finite-rank approximation is then applied on the power of the operator, and by evaluating the effect of the approximation error on the norm, a new necessary and sufficient stability condition is given finally.