“…During the past few decades, the study of time-delay systems (TDSs) has attracted increasing attention due to the fact that time delay is an unavoidable factor in a variety of physical and engineering problems, and may lead to instability, poor performance or even oscillation [3,7,29,31]. Therefore, the issue of stability analysis for TDSs has become a popular subject of research for their extensive applications in practical systems, such as H ∞ out tracking control system [36], markovian jump system [32], H ∞ filtering [4], reliable passive control for singular systems [28], dissipativity analysis [38], neural networks [22,23], and other scientific areas.…”