“…The problem of absolute stability of Lur'e system has received considerable attention in the control community, and many valuable results, such as Popov criterion, Circle criterion, and Kalman-Yakubovih-Popov lemma have been reported [21]. As time-delays are frequently encountered in practical systems and are often a source of instability and poor performance, the problem of absolute stability of Lur'e systems with time-delay has been attracting much attention [2,[3][4][5][6][9][10][11][12]19,20,25,[28][29][30][33][34][35][36]41,42]. In stability analysis of system with time delays, delay-dependent methods [3][4][5][6][10][11][12]20,25,[28][29][30][33][34][35][36]41,42] have been paid more attentions than delay-independent one [2,9,19] because of the fact that the sufficient conditions with delaydependent method provide maximum delay bounds for guaranteeing the asymptotic stability of the concerned system and are generally less conservative than delay-independent ones.…”