Time delays are a common perturbation in systems with many states, such as networked, distributed, or decentralized systems. Current methods analyzing the stability of large systems with time delay typically produce very conservative results. While more exact methods exist, these become inefficient for large systems. This paper provides a methodology for analyzing the stability of time-delayed systems that is derived from exact methods but is efficient for high-order systems. The computational and memory cost of this new technique is compared to the costs of existing techniques, and its efficiency is shown using a distributed system with over four hundred states I n = n × n identity matrix
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