Robust stability analysis of a class of neural networks with discrete time delays

This paper studies the existence, uniqueness and global asymptotic stability of the equilibrium point for the class of neural networks with discrete constant time delays under parameter uncertainties. The class of the neural network considered in this paper employs the activation functions which are assumed to be continuous and slope-bounded but not required to be bounded or differentiable. We conduct a stability analysis by exploiting the stability theory of Lyapunov functionals and the theory of Homomorphic mapping to derive some easily verifiable sufficient conditions for existence, uniqueness and global asymptotic stability of the equilibrium point. The conditions obtained mainly establish some time-independent relationships between the network parameters of the neural network. We make a detailed comparison between our results and the previously published corresponding results. This comparison proves that our results are new and improve and generalize the results derived in the past literature. We also give some illustrative numerical examples to show the effectiveness and applicability of our proposed stability results. (C) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved

Equilibrium and stability analysis of delayed neural networks under parameter uncertainties

This paper proposes new results for the existence, uniqueness and global asymptotic stability of the equilibrium point for neural networks with multiple time delays under parameter uncertainties. By using Lyapunov stability theorem and applying homeomorphism mapping theorem, new delay-independent stability criteria are obtained. The obtained results are in terms of network parameters of the neural system only and therefore they can be easily checked. We also present some illustrative numerical examples to demonstrate that our result are new and improve corresponding results derived in the previous literature. (C) 2011 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved

An analysis of stability of uncertain neural networks with multiple time delays

This paper deals with the problem of robust stability of neural networks with multiple time delays with the class of unbounded and nondecreasing activation functions. By constructing a suitable Lyapunov functional and applying the homeomorphism mapping theorem, we derive new delay-independent sufficient conditions that establish the existence, uniqueness and global asymptotic stability of the equilibrium point for the delayed neural networks under norm-bounded uncertain network parameters. The conditions obtained for robust stability are expressed in terms of network parameters only, therefore they can be easily checked. An advantage of the proposed results is that they consider the number of the neurons in the stability conditions. We also give some numerical examples with comparative results to demonstrate the applicability of our stability conditions. These comparative examples will also show the advantages of the obtained results over the corresponding robust stability results derived in the previous literature. (C) 2013 The Franklin Institute. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved

A new robust stability criterion for dynamical neural networks with multiple time delays

This paper investigates the problem of the existence, uniqueness and global asymptotic stability of the equilibrium point for the class of neural networks with multiple time delays and parameter uncertainties. Under the assumption that the activation functions are globally Lipschitz continuous, we derive a new criterion for the robust stability of a class of delayed neural networks by utilizing the Lyapunov stability theorems and the Homomorphic mapping theorem. Different from those previously published conditions in the recent literature, the robust stability result presented in this paper not only establishes a time-independent relationship between the network parameters of the neural network, but also takes into account the number the neurons of the designed neural system. Some illustrative numerical examples are also given to make a detailed comparison between our result and the previously published corresponding results. This comparison proves that our result is new and can be considered an alternative condition to those of the previously reported robust stability results. (c) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved

A new upper bound for the norm of interval matrices with application to robust stability analysis of delayed neural networks

The main problem with the analysis of robust stability of neural networks is to find the upper bound norm for the intervalized interconnection matrices of neural networks. In the previous literature, the major three upper bound norms for the intervalized interconnection matrices have been reported and they have been successfully applied to derive new sufficient conditions for robust stability of delayed neural networks. One of the main contributions of this paper will be the derivation of a new upper bound for the norm of the intervalized interconnection matrices of neural networks. Then, by exploiting this new upper bound norm of interval matrices and using stability theory of Lyapunov functionals and the theory of homomorphic mapping, we will obtain new sufficient conditions for the existence, uniqueness and global asymptotic stability of the equilibrium point for the class of neural networks with discrete time delays under parameter uncertainties and with respect to continuous and slope-bounded activation functions. The results obtained in this paper will be shown to be new and they can be considered alternative results to previously published corresponding results. We also give some illustrative and comparative numerical examples to demonstrate the effectiveness and applicability of the proposed robust stability condition. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved

Further analysis of global robust stability of neural networks with multiple time delays

This paper deals with the problem of the global robust asymptotic stability of the class of dynamical neural networks with multiple time delays. We propose a new alternative sufficient condition for the existence, uniqueness and global asymptotic stability of the equilibrium point under parameter uncertainties of the neural system. We first prove the existence and uniqueness of the equilibrium point by using the Homomorphic mapping theorem. Then, by employing a new Lyapunov functional, the Lyapunov stability theorem is used to establish the sufficient condition for the asymptotic stability of the equilibrium point. The obtained condition is independent of time delays and relies on the network parameters of the neural system only. Therefore, the equilibrium and stability properties of the delayed neural network can be easily checked. We also make a detailed comparison between our result and the previous corresponding results derived in the previous literature. This comparison proves that our result is new and improves some of the previously reported robust stability results. Some illustrative numerical examples are given to show the applicability and advantages of our result. (C) 2011 The Franklin Institute. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved