A new variant of the Zhang neural network for solving online time-varying linear inequalities

Since March 2001, a special class of recurrent neural networks termed the Zhang neural network (ZNN) has been proposed by Zhang and co-workers for solving online a rich repertoire of time-varying problems. By extending Zhang et al.'s design formula (or say, the ZNN design formula), a (new) variant of the ZNN design formula is proposed and investigated in this paper, which is also based on a matrix/vector-valued indefinite error function. In addition, by employing such a novel design formula, a new variant of the ZNN (NVZNN) is proposed, developed and investigated for online solution of time-varying linear inequalities (LIs). The resultant NVZNN models are depicted in implicit dynamics and methodologically exploit the time-derivative information of time-varying coefficients. Computer simulation results further demonstrate the novelty, efficacy and superiority of the proposed NVZNN models for solving online time-varying LIs.