Time delays are present in control systems (sensing, actuation and decision-making) or they are inherent parts of dynamical systems (chatter in metal machining, heredity in biology). Delays are known to cause detrimental effects to system behavior, but they also favor system performance, assist controllers success and even recover stability. This counter-intuitive and intriguing phenomenon is a strong motivation for engineering, mathematics, biology and physics disciplines. This book addresses one of the timeliest and the most crucial problems studied since 1960s: the asymptotic stability of...

This book covers the control and dynamics of time delay systems, from its six-decade history to new texhniques designed to meet the many new challenges that are emerging from engineering, physics, mathematics, and economics.

This volume is the first of the new series Advances in Dynamics and Delays. It offers the latest advances in the research of analyzing and controlling dynamical systems with delays, which arise in many real-world problems. The contributions in this series are a collection across various disciplines, encompassing engineering, physics, biology, and economics, and some are extensions of those presented at the IFAC (International Federation of Automatic Control) conferences since 2011. The series is categorized in five parts covering the main themes of the contributions: * Stability Analysis and...

Launching the series Advances in Dynamics and Delays, this book covers new ways of analyzing and controlling dynamical systems with delays, which arise in many real-world problems. Spans disciplines, encompassing engineering, physics, biology and economics.