Stability criteria for linear systems with uncertain delays ✩

New delay-independent and delay-dependent stability criteria for linear systems with multiple uncertain delays are established by using both the time-domain and the frequency-domain methods. The results are derived based on the established new preliminary lemmas and by using new-type stability theorems for general retarded dynamical systems and new analysis techniques in the time-domain and the frequency-domain. All the established stability criteria depend only on the eigenvalues related to the coefficient matrices of the systems and do not involve any free tuning parameters. In addition, some remarks are given to explain in detail the obtained results and to point out the limitations of the existing results in the literature.  2003 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.