Dynamic Analysis of Fractional-Order Fuzzy BAM Neural Networks with Delays in the Leakage Terms ()
1. Introduction
Fractional-order calculus is an area of mathematics that deals with extensions of derivatives and integrals to noninteger orders and represents a powerful tool in applied mathematics to study a myriad of problems from different fields [1] [2] [3] [4] . Analogously, starting with a linear difference equation, we are led to a definition of fractional difference of an arbitrary order [5] . Nowadays, studying on fractional-order calculus has become an active research field. In recent years, fractional operator is introduced into artificial neural networks, and the fractional-order formulation of artificial neural network models is also proposed in research results about biological neurons.
The analysis of fractional-order artificial neural networks has received some attention, and some important and interesting results have been obtained [6] - [11] . For instances, the stability and multi-stability (coexistence of several different stable states), bifurcations and chaos of fractional-order neural networks of Hopfield type were investigated in [6] . Finite-time stability in neural networks with delay has been discussed in [7] . Zhang and Yu [8] proposed fractional-order Hopfield neural networks with discontinuous activation functions and investigated its stability through the Lyapunov functionals. In [9] , authors considered the following fractional-order autonomous neural network:
where
is the fractional derivative and
;
corresponds to the state of the ith unit at time t;
and
denote the activation function of the jth neuron. A sufficient criterion ensuring the uniform stability of the system and the existence, uniqueness, and uniform stability of the equilibrium point is presented.
Recently, a typical time delay called leakage delay which is the time delay in the leakage term of the systems and a considerable factor affecting dynamics for the worse in the systems, has a great impact on the dynamical behavior of neural networks. Since leakage delays can have a destabilizing influence on the dynamical behaviors of neural networks, it is necessary to investigate leakage delay effects on the stability of neural networks (see [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] ). Fuzzy theory is considered as a more suitable method for the sake of taking vagueness into consideration; as a kind of important neural networks, studies have shown that the fuzzy neural networks are a very useful paradigm for image processing problems [17] [18] . Subsequently, various interesting results on the stability and other behaviors of delayed fuzzy BAM neural networks have been derived (see [19] [20] [21] [22] and references cited therein). However, to the best of our knowledge, there are few results on the uniform stability analysis of fractional-order fuzzy BAM neural networks with leakage delays.
Motivated by the above, in this paper, we are concerned with the following fractional-order fuzzy BAM neural network with delays in the leakage terms:
(1)
where n and m correspond to the number of neurons in X-layer and Y-layer, respectively.
is the Caputo’s fractional derivative and
;
and
are the activations of the ith neuron and the jth neuron, respectively;
denote the rate with which the ith neurons and the jth neurons will reset its potential to the resting state in isolation when disconnected from the network and external inputs;
and
are the elements of fuzzy feedback MIN template and fuzzy feedback MAX template, fuzzy feed-forward MIN template and fuzzy feed-forward MAX template in X-layer, respectively;
and
are the elements of fuzzy feedback MIN template and fuzzy feedback MAX template, fuzzy feed-forward MIN template and fuzzy feed-forward MAX template in Y-layer, respectively;
and
denote the fuzzy AND and fuzzy OR operation, respectively;
and
denote external input of the ith neurons in X-layer and external input of the jth neurons in Y-layer, respectively;
and
represent bias of the ith neurons in X-layer and bias of the jth neurons in Y-layer, respectively;
and
are the delayed feedback,
and
are the signal transmission functions, and
.
Here, the initial conditions associated with system (1) are of the form
(2)
where it is usually assumed that
and
denote real-valued continuous functions defined on
and
, respectively. If the initial value
we denote the norm
, norm of
denoted by
The main purpose of this paper is to obtain some sufficient conditions for the uniform stability of the system. Then we study the existence, uniqueness, uniform stability of the equilibrium point.
This paper is organized as follows: In Section 2, we introduce some notations and definitions and state some preliminary results which are needed in later sections. In Section 3, we establish some sufficient conditions for the uniform stability of the system and the existence, uniqueness, and uniform stability of the equilibrium point. In Section 4, an example is given to illustrate that our results are feasible. The conclusion is made in Section 5.
2. Preliminaries
In this section, we shall recall some definitions and state some lemmas which will be used in the later section.
Definition 1. ( [1] , [2] ) The fractional integral (Riemann-Liouville integral)
with fractional order
of function
is defined as
where
is the gamma function,
.
Definition 2. ( [1] , [2] ) The Riemann-Liouville derivative of fractional order
of function
is given as
where
.
Definition 3. ( [1] , [2] ) The Caputo derivative of fractional order
of function
is defined as follows
where
.
Lemma 1. ( [1] , [2] ) If
and
, then
1)
;
2)
;
3)
.
Consider the initial value problem of the following fractional differential equation
(3)
where
,
,
is continuous in t and locally Lipschitz in x.
The equilibrium point of the Caputo’s fractional dynamic system has been defined in earlier work [23] [24] . We shall employ the following definitions of the equilibrium point and uniformly stable of the Caputo’s fractional dynamic system:
Definition 3. The constant
is an equilibrium point of the Caputo’s fractional dynamic system (3) if and only if
for any
.
Definition 4. The solution of system (1) is said to be stable if for any
there exists
such that
imply
for any two solutions
and
. It is uniformly stable if the above
independent of
.
Definition 5. The solution
with initial values
of system (1) is said to be uniformly stable if for any
and
for any solution
of (1) with initial value
, where
and
such that
imply
.
In order to obtain the main results, here, we make the following assumptions:
(H1) The neuron activation functions
satisfy the Lipschitz condition. That is, there exist positive constants
such that
Lemma 2. ( [25] ) Suppose that
be the two states of the system (1). Then, one has
3. Uniform Stability of Fractional-Order Neural Networks
In this section, a sufficient condition for uniform stability of a class of fractional-order delayed neural networks on time scale, and the existence and uniqueness, uniform stability of equilibrium point are proposed, respectively.
Theorem 3. Let (H1) holds. Suppose further that, for
, (H2)
and
satisfy the following condition:
, where
then the system (1) is uniformly stable.
Proof: Assume that
and
are two solutions of system (1) with different initial values
where
and
If
, we use the following norm:
norm of
denoted by
Based on Lemma 2, one has
(4)
From (4), one obtains
which implies that
(5)
Similarly, we can also get
(6)
In view of (5) and (6), one has
which implies that
Easily, we have
Therefore, for
, there exist
such that
when
, which means that the solution
the system (1) is uniformly stable.
Theorem 4. Let (H1), (H2) hold, then there exists a unique equilibrium point in system (1), which is uniformly stable.
Proof: Let
, and constructing a mapping
defined by
where
Now, we will show that
is a contraction mapping on
endowed with the norm
In fact, for any two different points
and
we have
It follows from (H2) that
which implies that
is a contraction mapping on
. Hence, there exists a unique fixed point
such that
, i.e.
That is
which implies that
is an equilibrium point of the system (1). Moreover, it follows from Theorem 3 that
is uniformly stable. This completes the proof.
4. Numerical Example
In this section, a numerical example is presented to illustrate our results. Consider the following fractional-order fuzzy BAM neural network:
(7)
where
When
, we have
Then
It is very easy to verify that (H2) holds, according to Theorem 4, system (7) has a unique equilibrium point
, which is uniformly stable.
5. Conclusion
As is widely known, the leakage delay has a great impact on the dynamical behavior of neural networks. Thus, it is necessary and rewarding to study the leakage delay effects to the dynamic behaviors of neural networks. In this paper, we have derived some sufficient conditions ensuring the existence, uniqueness, and uniform stability of equilibrium point for fractional-order fuzzy BAM neural networks with delays in the leakage terms. We have also given an example to illustrate the feasibility and effectiveness of the obtained results. In addition, when the fractional-order differential system is equivalent to an integral one, then it is possible to extend the method to many other fractional-order fuzzy neural networks within commensurate order and fractional neutral-type fuzzy neural networks with time-varying delay in the leakage terms, which can be a good topic for further investigation.
Acknowledgements
This work is supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (11772291), Innovation Scientists and Technicians Troop Construction Projects of Henan Province (2017JR0013). The authors would like to thank the associate editor and the referees for their detailed comments and valuable suggestions which considerably improved the presentation of the paper.