The global exponential stability of Cohen-Grossberg neural networks with time-varying delays is studied. By constructing several suitable Lyapunov functionals and utilizing differential in-equality techniques, some sufficient criteria for the global exponential stability and the exponential convergence rate of the equilibrium point of the system are obtained. The criteria do not require the activation functions to be differentiable or monotone nondecreasing. Some stability results from previous works are extended and improved. Comparisons are made to demonstrate the advantage of our results.
This paper proposes output feedback controller design methods for uncertain piecewise linear systems based on piecewise quadratic Lyapunov function. The α-stability of closed-loop systems is also considered. It is shown that the output feedback controller design procedure of uncertain piecewise linear systems with α-stability constraint can be cast as solving a set of bilinear matrix inequalities （BMIs）. The BMIs problem in this paper can be solved iteratively as a set of two convex optimization problems involving linear matrix inequalities （LMIs） which can be solved numerically efficiently. A numerical example shows the effectiveness of the proposed methods.
In this paper, the optimal viability decision problem of linear discrete-time stochastic systems with probability criterion is investigated. Under the condition of sequence-reachable discrete-time dynamic systems, the existence theorem of optimal viability strategy is given and the solving procedure of the optimal strategy is provided based on dynamic programming. A numerical example shows the effectiveness of the proposed methods.
