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A switching rule for exponential stability of switched recurrent neural networks with interval time-varying delay
Advances in Difference Equations volume 2013, Article number: 44 (2013)
Abstract
This paper studies the problem for exponential stability of switched recurrent neural networks with interval time-varying delay. The time delay is a continuous function belonging to a given interval, but not necessarily differentiable. By constructing a set of argumented Lyapunov-Krasovskii functionals combined with the Newton-Leibniz formula, a switching rule for exponential stability of switched recurrent neural networks with interval time-varying delay is designed via linear matrix inequalities, and new sufficient conditions for the exponential stability of switched recurrent neural networks with interval time-varying delay via linear matrix inequalities (LMIs) are derived. A numerical example is given to illustrate the effectiveness of the obtained result.
1 Introduction
In recent years, neural networks (especially recurrent neural networks, Hopfield neural networks, and cellular neural networks) have been successfully applied in many areas such as signal processing, image processing, pattern recognition, fault diagnosis, associative memory, and combinatorial optimization; see, for example, [1–6]. One of the best important works in these applications is to study the stability of the equilibrium point of neural networks. A major purpose is to find stability conditions i.e., the conditions for the stability of the equilibrium point of neural networks. The stability and control of recurrent neural networks with time delay have attracted considerable attention in recent years [1–10]. In many practical systems, it is desirable to design neural networks which are not only asymptotically or exponentially stable but can also guarantee an adequate level of system performance. In the area of control, signal processing, pattern recognition, and image processing, delayed neural networks have many useful applications. Some of these applications require the equilibrium points of the designed network to be stable. In both biological and artificial neural systems, time delays due to integration and communication are ubiquitous and often become a source of instability. The time delays in electronic neural networks are usually time-varying and sometimes vary violently with respect to time due to the finite switching speed of amplifiers and faults in the electrical circuitry. The Lyapunov-Krasovskii functional technique has been among the popular and effective tools in the design of guaranteed cost controls for neural networks with time delay. Nevertheless, despite such diversity of results available, most existing works either assumed that the time delays are constant or differentiable [9–14]. To the best of our knowledge, a switching rule and exponential stability for switched recurrent neural networks with interval time-varying delay, non-differentiable time-varying delays have not been fully studied yet (see, e.g., [4–9, 13–25] and the references therein), and they are important in both theories and applications. This motivates our research.
In this paper, we investigate the exponential stability for a switched recurrent neural networks problem. The novel features here are that the delayed neural network under consideration is with various globally Lipschitz continuous activation functions, and the time-varying delay function is interval, non-differentiable. Based on constructing a set of augmented Lyapunov-Krasovskii functionals combined with Newton-Leibniz formula, a switching rule for exponential stability of switched recurrent neural networks with interval time-varying delay and new delay-dependent exponential stability criteria for switched recurrent neural networks with interval time-varying delay are established in terms of LMIs, which allow simultaneous computation of two bounds that characterize the exponential stability rate of the solution and can be easily determined by utilizing MATLABs LMI control toolbox.
The outline of the paper is as follows. Section 2 presents definitions and some well-known technical propositions needed for the proof of the main result. LMI delay-dependent exponential stability criteria for switched recurrent neural networks with interval time-varying delay criteria, a switching rule for exponential stability of switched recurrent neural networks with interval time-varying delay, and a numerical example showing the effectiveness of the result are presented in Section 3. The paper ends with conclusions and cited references.
2 Preliminaries
The following notations will be used in this paper. denotes the set of all real non-negative numbers; denotes the n-dimensional space with the scalar product or of two vectors x, y and the vector norm ; denotes the space of all matrices of -dimensions. denotes the transpose of matrix A; A is symmetric if ; I denotes the identity matrix; denotes the set of all eigenvalues of A; , . , ; denotes the set of all -valued continuously differentiable functions on ; denotes the set of all the -valued square integrable functions on .
Matrix A is called semi-positive definite () if for all ; A is positive definite () if for all ; means . The notation stands for a block-diagonal matrix. The symmetric term in a matrix is denoted by ∗.
Consider the following switched recurrent neural networks with interval time-varying delay:
where is the state of the neural, n is the number of neurals, and
are the activation functions; is the switching rule, which is a function depending on the state at each time and will be designed. A switching function is a rule which determines a switching sequence for a given switching system. Moreover, implies that the system realization is chosen as the j th system, . It is seen that the system (2.1) can be viewed as an autonomous switched system in which the effective subsystem changes when the state hits predefined boundaries.
, represents the self-feedback term; , denote the connection weights, the discretely delayed connection weights, and the distributively delayed connection weight, respectively. The time-varying delay function satisfies the condition
The initial functions with the norm
In this paper, we consider various activation functions and assume that the activation functions , are Lipschitzian with the Lipschitz constants :
Definition 2.1 The zero solution of switched recurrent neural networks with interval time-varying delay (2.1) is α-exponentially stable if there exist two positive numbers , such that every solution satisfies the following condition:
We introduce the following technical well-known propositions, which will be used in the proof of our results.
Proposition 2.1 (Schur complement lemma [26])
Given constant matrices X, Y, Z with appropriate dimensions satisfying . Then if and only if
Proposition 2.2 (Integral matrix inequality [27])
For any symmetric positive definite matrix , scalar and vector function such that the integrations concerned are well defined, the following inequality holds:
3 Main results
Let us set
Theorem 3.1 The zero solution of the switched recurrent neural networks with interval time-varying delay (2.1) is α-exponentially stable if there exist a positive number , symmetric positive definite matrices P, U, , , , , and diagonal positive definite matrices , satisfying the following LMIs:
the switching rule is chosen as . Moreover, the solution of the system satisfies
Proof Let , . We consider the following Lyapunov-Krasovskii functional:
It is easy to check that
Taking the derivative of , we have
Applying Proposition 2.2 and the Leibniz-Newton formula
we have, for ,
Note that
Applying Proposition 2.2 gives
Since , we have
then
Similarly, we have
Then we have
Using equation (2.1),
and multiplying both sides by , we have
Adding all the zero items of (3.5) into (3.4) for the following estimations:
we obtain
where , and
Therefore, by condition (3.1), we obtain from (3.6) that
Integrating both sides of (3.7) from 0 to t, we obtain
Furthermore, taking condition (3.2) into account, we have
then
which concludes the exponential stability of (2.1). This completes the proof of the theorem. □
Example 3.1 Consider the switched recurrent neural networks with interval time-varying delay (2.1) for , where
Note that is non-differentiable, therefore, the stability criteria proposed in [5–9, 11–14, 17–25] are not applicable to this system. We choose that , , . By using the Matlab LMI toolbox, we can solve linear matrix inequalities for P, U, , , , , and which satisfy the conditions (3.1) in Theorem 3.1. A set of solutions is as follows:
By Theorem 3.1, the switched recurrent neural networks with interval time-varying delay are exponentially stable and the switching rule is chosen as . Moreover, the solution of the system satisfies
4 Conclusion
In this paper, the problem of exponential stability for switched recurrent neural networks with interval non-differentiable time-varying delay has been studied. By constructing a set of time-varying Lyapunov-Krasovskii functional combined with Newton-Leibniz formula, a switching rule for exponential stability of switched recurrent neural networks with interval time-varying delay has been presented and new sufficient conditions for the exponential stability for the system have been derived in terms of LMIs.
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This work was supported by the Office of Agricultural Research and Extension Maejo University Chiang Mai Thailand, the National Research Council of Thailand, the Thailand Research Fund Grant, the Higher Education Commission and Faculty of Science, Maejo University, Thailand. The authors thank anonymous reviewers for valuable comments and suggestions, which allowed us to improve the paper.
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Rajchakit, M., Niamsup, P. & Rajchakit, G. A switching rule for exponential stability of switched recurrent neural networks with interval time-varying delay. Adv Differ Equ 2013, 44 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1186/1687-1847-2013-44
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