Delay dependent stability results for fuzzy BAM neural networks with Markovian jumping parameters

This paper deals with the delay-dependent asymptotic stability analysis problem for a class of fuzzy bidirectional associative memory (BAM) neural networks with time-varying interval delays and Markovian jumping parameters by Takagi-Sugeno (T-S) fuzzy model. The nonlinear delayed BAM neural networks are first established as a modified T-S fuzzy model in which the consequent parts are composed of a set of Markovian jumping BAM neural networks with time-varying interval delays. The jumping parameters considered here are generated from a continuous-time discrete-state homogeneous Markov process, which are governed by a Markov process with discrete and finite-state space. The new type of Markovian jumping matrices P-k and Q(k) are introduced in this paper. The parameter uncertainties are assumed to be norm bounded and the delay is assumed to be time-varying and belong to a given interval, which means that the lower and upper bounds of interval time-varying delays are available. A new delay-dependent stability condition is derived in terms of linear matrix inequality by constructing a new Lyapunov-Krasovskii functional and introducing some free-weighting matrices. Numerical examples are given to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed methods. (C) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.