The robust synchronization of uncertain master-slave Lur’e systems based
on time-delayed feedback control is further investigated. A less
conservative synchronization stability criterion and a less conservative
robust synchronization stability criterion than some recent published
references are proposed via Lyapunov stability theory. Firstly, an
augmented delay-dependent Lyapunov-Krasovskii functional (LKF) is
constructed, where some single integral terms are augmented to the
integrand component of a single-integral subfunction. This not only
increases some coupling information between some system variables, but
also increases the coupling information of some necessary variables
contained in the inequality lemmas, which can make full use of the
inequality lemmas and reduce the conservatism of the synchronization
stability criterion. Secondly, to overcome the nonlinear phenomena in
the synchronization criterion, the novel negative definite inequality
equivalent transformation lemma is used to transform the nonlinear
inequalities to the linear matrix inequalities (LMIs) equivalently,
which can be easily solved by the MATLAB LMI-Toolbox. Finally, some
common numerical examples are presented to show the effectiveness of the
proposed approach.