摘要:AbstractRobust stability of a class of linear time-invariant systems affected by piecewise constant parameters with dwell-time constraints is considered. In contrast to other approaches the proposed result relies on separation techniques within the framework of integral quadratic constraints and is based on a novel version of the swapping lemma. In particular, our result allows to take additional knowledge on the variation of the parameter into account. The obtained conditions are expressed as infinite-dimensional linear matrix inequalities which can be solved, e.g., by using sum-of-squares relaxation methods. We illustrate the proposed approach with a numerical example.