A new criterion for global robust stability of interval delayed neural networks

A novel criterion for the global robust stability of Hopfield-type interval neural networks with delay is presented. An example showing the effectiveness of the present criterion is given.     

Delay-dependent stability criterion for delayed Hopfield neural networks

In this paper, a new Lyapunov–Krasovskii functional is constructed for delayed Hopfield neural networks, and several free-weighting matrices and S-procedure are employed to derive the delay-dependent stability criterion. The derived criterion is formulated in terms of linear matrix inequality (LMI). A numerical example is given to demonstrate the effectiveness and less conservativeness of the presented criterion.     

A new criterion for global robust stability of interval neural networks with discrete time delays

This paper further studies global robust stability of a class of interval neural networks with discrete time delays. By introducing an equivalent transformation of interval matrices, a new criterion on global robust stability is established. In comparison with the results reported in the literature, the proposed approach leads to results with less restrictive conditions. Numerical examples are also worked through to illustrate our results.     

A new criterion to global exponential stability for impulsive neural networks with continuously distributed delays

This paper considers the global exponential stability and exponential convergence rate of impulsive neural networks with continuously distributed delays in which the state variables on the impulses are related to the unbounded distributed delays. By establishing a new impulsive delay differential inequality, a new criterion concerning global exponential stability for these networks is derived, and the estimated exponential convergence rate is also obtained. The result extends and improves on earlier publications. In addition, two numerical examples are given to illustrate the applicability of the result. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Improved global robust stability criterion for delayed neural networks

A criterion for the uniqueness and global robust stability of the equilibrium point of interval Hopfield-type delayed neural networks is presented. The criterion is a marked improvement over a recent criterion due to Cao, Huang and Qu.     

A new global stability result for delayed neural networks

By constructing suitable Lyapunov functionals and combining with matrix inequality technique, a new sufficient condition is presented for the global asymptotic stability of delayed neural networks. The condition contains and improves some of the previous results in the earlier references.     

An improved global exponential stability criterion for delayed neural networks

Based on Lyapunov–Krasovskii stability theory and the linear matrix inequality (LMI) technique, a criterion is derived to guarantee the global exponential stability of the class of delayed neural networks with time-varying delays, which generalizes and improves previous results. Numerical examples demonstrate the effectiveness of the criterion.     

Exponential stability criteria for discrete-time recurrent neural networks with time-varying delay

In this paper, the robust global exponential stability is investigated for the discrete-time recurrent neural networks (RNNs) with time-varying interval delay. By choosing an augmented Lyapunov–Krasovskii functional, delay-dependent results guaranteeing the global exponential stability and the robust exponential stability of the concerned neural network are obtained. The results are shown to be a generalization of some previous results, and less conservative than the existing works. Two numerical examples are given to demonstrate the applicability of the proposed method.     

Improved delay-dependent stability criterion for neural networks with time-varying delay

In this paper, the problem of delay-dependent asymptotic stability criterion for neural networks with time-varying delay has been considered. A new class of Lyapunov functional which contains a triple-integral term is constructed to derive some new delay-dependent stability criteria. The obtained criteria are less conservative because free-weighting matrices method and a convex optimization approach are considered. Finally, numerical examples are given to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.     

A new criterion to global exponential periodicity for discrete-time BAM neural network with infinite delays

The discrete-time bidirectional associative memory neural network with periodic coefficients and infinite delays is studied. And not by employing the continuation theorem of coincidence degree theory as other literatures, but by constructing suitable Liapunov function, using fixed point theorem and some analysis techniques, a sufficient criterion is obtained which ensures the existence and global exponential stability of periodic solution for the type of discrete-time BAM neural network. The obtained result is less restrictive to the BAM neural networks than previously known criteria. Furthermore, it can be applied to the BAM neural network which signal transfer functions are neither bounded nor differentiable. In addition, an example and its numerical simulation are given to illustrate the effectiveness of the obtained result.     

Exponential stability of discrete-time neural networks with delay and impulses

In this paper, we investigate the exponential stability of discrete-time neural networks with impulses and time-varying delay. The discrete-time neural networks are derived by discretizing the corresponding continuous-time counterparts with different discretization methods. The impulses are classified into three classes: input disturbances, stabilizing and “neutral” type - the impulses are neither helpful for stabilizing nor destabilizing the neural networks, and then by using the excellent ideology introduced recently by Chen and Zheng [W.H. Chen, W.X. Zheng, Global exponential stability of impulsive neural networks with variable delay: an LMI approach, IEEE Trans. Circuits Syst. I 56 (6) (2009) 1248-1259], the connections between the impulses and the utilized Lyapunov function are fully explored with respect to each type of impulse. Novel techniques that used to realize the ideology in discrete-time situation are proposed and it is shown that they are essentially different from the continuous-time case. Several criteria for global exponential stability of the discrete-time neural networks are established in terms of matrix inequalities and based on these theoretical results numerical simulations are given to compare the capability of different discretization methods.     

Robust stability of discrete-time LPD neural networks with time-varying delay

This paper presents a new approach to the robust stability of discrete-time LPD neural networks with time-varying delay and with normed bounded uncertainties as well as polytopic type uncertainties. Based on Lyapunov stability theory and the S-procedure, we derive robust stability criteria in terms of linear matrix inequalities (LMI) which are solvable by several available algorithms. We show that some of the existing results on robust stability of neural networks are corollaries of main results of this paper. Numerical examples are given to illustrate the effectiveness of our theoretical results.     

Global exponential stability of impulsive discrete-time neural networks with time-varying delays

This paper studies the problem of global exponential stability and exponential convergence rate for a class of impulsive discrete-time neural networks with time-varying delays. Firstly, by means of the Lyapunov stability theory, some inequality analysis techniques and a discrete-time Halanay-type inequality technique, sufficient conditions for ensuring global exponential stability of discrete-time neural networks are derived, and the estimated exponential convergence rate is provided as well. The obtained results are then applied to derive global exponential stability criteria and exponential convergence rate of impulsive discrete-time neural networks with time-varying delays. Finally, numerical examples are provided to illustrate the effectiveness and usefulness of the obtained criteria.     

Periodic solutions for nonautonomous discrete-time neural networks

In this paper, we theoretically prove the existence of periodic solutions for a nonautonomous discrete-time neural networks by using the topological degree theory. Sufficient conditions are also obtained for the existence of an asymptotically stable periodic solution. As a special case, we obtain the existence of a fixed point to the corresponding autonomous discrete-time neural networks which corrects the error in [W.R. Zhao, W. Lin, R.S. Liu, J. Ruan, Asymptotical stability in discrete-time neural networks, IEEE Trans. Circuits Syst. I 49 (2002) 1516–1520]. Numerical simulations are given at the end of the paper.     

Global exponential stability of BAM neural networks with time-varying delays: The discrete-time case

This paper deals with the problem of stability analysis for a class of discrete-time bidirectional associative memory (BAM) neural networks with time-varying delays. By employing the Lyapunov functional and linear matrix inequality (LMI) approach, a new sufficient conditions is proposed for the global exponential stability of discrete-time BAM neural networks. The proposed LMI based results can be easily checked by LMI control toolbox. Moreover, an example is also provided to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.     

A new stability criterion for linear discrete systems

This paper is concerned with the stability of difference equations. A criterion to decide whether a certain polynomial has all its zeros inside the unit circle is applied to multistep linear methods in order to obtain the absolute stability region, and it is shown how this region can be extended. Systems of linear difference equations are also considered and an extension to partial difference equations is discussed.     

Robust stability for discrete-time stochastic genetic regulatory networks

Attention in this paper is focused on the study of the problem of asymptotic stability for a class of discrete-time stochastic genetic regulatory networks with time-varying but norm-bounded parameter uncertainties. By the Lyapunov–Krasovskii functional approach, delay-dependent stability criteria are derived in terms of linear matrix inequalities. Simulation examples are provided to show the effectiveness of the proposed results.     

Novel global robust exponential stability criterion for uncertain BAM neural networks with time-varying delays

In this paper, the global robust exponential stability for a class of delayed BAM neural networks with norm-bounded uncertainty is studied. Some less conservative conditions are presented for the global exponential stability of BAM neural networks with time-varying delays by constructing a new class of Lyapunov functionals combined with free-weighting matrices. This novel approach, based on the linear matrix inequality (LMI) technique, removes some existing restrictions on the system’s parameters, and the derived conditions are easy to verify via the LMI toolbox. Comparisons between our results and previous results admit that our results establish a new set of stability criteria for delayed BAM neural networks.     

Exponential stability preservation in discrete-time analogues of artificial neural networks with distributed delays

This paper demonstrates that there is a discrete-time analogue which does not require any restriction on the size of the time-step in order to preserve the exponential stability of an artificial neural network with distributed delays. The analysis exploits an appropriate Lyapunov sequence and a discrete-time system of Halanay inequalities, and also either a Young inequality or a geometric-arithmetic mean inequality, to derive several sufficient conditions on the network parameters for the exponential stability of the analogue. The sufficiency conditions are independent of the time-step, and they correspond to those that establish the exponential stability of the continuous-time network.     

Chaos and asymptotical stability in discrete-time recurrent neural networks with generalized input-output function

We theoretically investigate the asymptotical stability, local bifurcations and chaos of discrete-time recurrent neural networks with the form of