Stability and passivity analysis of discrete-time linear systems with time-varying delay.

This paper focuses on the stability and passivity analysis for a class of discrete-time linear systems. A novel general free-matrix-based summation inequality is proposed, and two improved stability criteria in terms of linear matrix inequalities (LMIs) are derived by employing the new summation inequality. Furthermore, when an external disturbance appears, a sufficient condition is established to ensure the considered linear system to be passive. Three numerical examples are provided to demonstrate the improvement of the proposed method. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]