Low conservative stability criteria for discrete-time Lur’e systems with sector and slope constrained nonlinearities

Lur’e system is an important nonlinear system in engineering, which is composed of a feedback connection of a linear dynamic system and a nonlinear system that satisfies the sector constraint. In this paper, for nominal and uncertain discrete Lur’e systems with time-varying delays, the absolute and robustly absolute stability are studied in detail with the nonlinearity satisfying the sector and slope constraints. Firstly, an augmented Lyapunov–Krasovskii functional (LKF) is designed, in which some augmented vectors are selected to increase the coupling information between the delay intervals and other system state variables. At the same time, some effective integral terms of nonlinear state variables are extended in the LKF according to the characteristics of sector constraint and slope constraint. Secondly, a general lemma of summation inequality for free-weighted matrices is given, which adds some coupling information between vectors and extends the search range for solving linear matrix inequalities (LMIs). Thirdly, by synthesizing the general summation inequality and the newly constructed LKF, different absolute stability criteria are derived respectively, and the absolute stability criteria are extended to robustly absolute stability cases with uncertain parameters. The stability criteria reduce the conservatism of some previously proposed results. Finally, some common numerical examples and simulations are used to verify the results of this paper.