“…Given scalar τ > 0 and μ, the sliding mode dynamic system in (12) is passive in the sense of Definition 1 for any time-varying delay τ (t) satisfying (3), if there exist matrices S > 0, Z > 0, P i > 0, Q i > 0, W 1i , W 2i , i ∈ S, and scalars γ ≥ 0 and ε > 0, such that the following LMIs (13), (14) hold for all i ∈ S: where…”