The phrase "a small time delay" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a brief pause or lag in a process or event.
Example: "Due to a small time delay in the system, the results will be available shortly."
Alternatives: "a brief delay" or "a minor time lag."
It has been shown in the literature that the existence of a stabilizing observer-based controller is related to delay-dependent conditions that are generally satisfied for a small time delay.
Thus, to determine the actual time delay among { D ik ( t ) − T R ( t ), D ik ( t ), D ik ( t ) + T R ( t ) }, that is associated to phase difference θik(t), one can use the following procedure: (i) Generate a set of pairs of delayed signals {xi(t),xk(t + r t0)}, with r ∈ Z and being t0 a small time delay.
The same profile was observed for ESR, but with a small time delay in response, the maximum decrease being observed at week one.
As CA activity was increased, steady-state pR approached the true pHi and did so with a smaller time delay.
This paper investigates the effect of a small time-delay on dynamic output feedback control of an offshore steel jacket structure subject to a nonlinear wave-induced force.
Alvarez, J., Alvarez, J., Velasco, M. "Approximate model-matching for nonlinear systems with a small time-delay; application to a chaotic Chua circuit," Proceedings of the 36th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (Cat. No.97CH36124).
Second, a small time-delay is introduced intentionally to design a new dynamic output feedback controller such that (i) the controller is of a small gain in the sense of Euclidean norm and (ii) the internal oscillations of the offshore structure can be dramatically reduced.
It can be seen that every super shot is blended with three single shots while there is a small time-delay between each single shot in Fig. 2b.
It is well-known that the closed-loop stability achieved by some stabilizing output feedback laws is not robust for any small time delay.
The stable Hopf bifurcating periodic solution of system (4.1) for σ = 0.9 would be destroyed, even for a very small time delay, and a typical unstable periodic oscillation appears when τ = 0.001 for system (4.3).
The amplitude of the oscillation is increased with the increasing of the time t (see Figure 9).When σ = 0.35, a typical unbounded oscillation solution is observed for a very small time delay τ = 0.001 and time t ≈ 101 (see Figure 10).
