“…Time delays often appear in various engineering systems, such as chemical processes, mechanical systems, transmission lines, and economic systems (Kolmanovskii and Myshkis, 1999;Niculescu, 2001;Richard, 2003;Yang et al, 2015;Bayrak and Tatlicioglu, 2016). The existence of time delays usually causes performance degradation and is frequently a source of instability.…”