Letters: Interval time-varying delay stability for neural networks

  • Authors:
  • Fernando de Oliveira Souza;Reinaldo Martinez Palhares

  • Affiliations:
  • Universidade Federal de São João del-Rei, Campus Alto Paraopeba, Rod. MG 443 Km 07, 36420-000 Ouro Branco, MG, Brazil;Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Departamento de Engenharia Eletrônica, Av. Antônio Carlos, 31270-010 Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil

  • Venue:
  • Neurocomputing
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

This paper presents a new linear matrix inequality (LMI) stability criterion for continuous-time artificial neural networks (ANN) with interval time-varying delay. The varying-time delay is taken as composition of a nominal positive value subject to a time-varying perturbation. The methodology is based on Gu's discretization technique and a strategy that decouples the system matrices from the Lyapunov functional matrices. Two numerical examples are performed to support the theoretical predictions.