Stabilization of a class of switched neutral systems under sampled-data control

In this paper, we study the stabilization problem for a class of switched neutral systems with mixed time-varying delays under sampled-data control with fixed sampling period. The sampled control input is converted into a continuous time control with a time-varying piecewise continuous delay. We stabilize the switched systems by combining the dwell time method and the average dwell time method, and reveal a relationship between the average dwell time and the sampling period which is a necessary condition to the stabilization of the switched neutral systems.