Effects of bounded and unbounded leakage time-varying delays in memristor-based recurrent neural networks with different memductance functions

This paper is concerned with the problem of mu-stability analysis of memristor-based recurrent neural networks with the effects of bounded and unbounded leakage time-varying delays. A new idea of mu-stability analysis of neural networks is given first, then by means of the linear matrix inequality (LMI) approach, stability criteria are presented. Two types of memductance functions is used to derive the proposed stability results. Obviously, the memristive neural network with different memductance functions is a state-dependent switched system or a state-dependent continuous system, which is the generalization of those for conventional artificial neural networks. Under the framework of Filippov solutions, mu-stability analysis of solutions for functional differential inclusions and memristor-based neural networks can be guaranteed by constructing suitable Lyapunov-Krasovskii functionals, suitable inequalities and LMIs. The dynamic analysis in this paper utilizes the theory of set-valued maps and functional differential equations with discontinuous right-hand sides of Filippov type. Leakage time varying delay is considered in this paper to be bounded, unbounded and differentiable. Taking into account of the information of the neuron activation functions and unbounded time-varying delays, several improved results have been obtained in terms of LMIs and these are tested by MATLAB LMI toolbox. The model based on the memristor widens the relevance scope for the design of neural networks, and the new effective results also enrich the toolbox for the qualitative analysis of neural networks. Finally, numerical examples are provided to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed theoretical results. (C) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.