Łojasiewicz inequality and exponential convergence of the full-range model of CNNs

  • Authors:
  • Mauro Di Marco;Mauro Forti;Massimo Grazzini;Luca Pancioni

  • Affiliations:
  • Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione, Universitá di Siena, v. Roma 56-53100 Siena, Italy;Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione, Universitá di Siena, v. Roma 56-53100 Siena, Italy;Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione, Universitá di Siena, v. Roma 56-53100 Siena, Italy;Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione, Universitá di Siena, v. Roma 56-53100 Siena, Italy

  • Venue:
  • International Journal of Circuit Theory and Applications
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

This paper considers the Full-range (FR) model of Cellular Neural Networks (CNNs) in the case where the signal range is delimited by an ideal hard-limiter nonlinearity with two vertical segments in the i−v characteristic. A Łojasiewicz inequality around any equilibrium point, for a FRCNN with a symmetric interconnection matrix, is proved. It is also shown that the Łojasiewicz exponent is equal to **image**. The main consequence is that any forward solution of a symmetric FRCNN has finite length and is exponentially convergent toward an equilibrium point, even in degenerate situations where the FRCNN possesses non-isolated equilibrium points. The obtained results are shown to improve the previous results in literature on convergence or almost convergence of symmetric FRCNNs. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.