On asymptotic stabilizability of linear systems with delayed input

This paper examines the asymptotic stabilizability of linear systems with delayed input. By explicit construction of stabilizing feedback laws, it is shown that a stabilizable and detectable linear system with an arbitrarily large delay in the input can be asymptotically stabilized by either linear state or output feedback as long as the open loop system is not exponentially unstable (i.e., all the open loop poles are on the closed left-half plane). A simple example shows that such results would not be true if the open loop system is exponentially unstable. It is further shown that such systems, when subject to actuator saturation, are semi-globally asymptotically stabilizable by linear state or output feedback