Passivity analysis of memristor-based recurrent neural networks with time-varying delays

This paper investigates the delay-dependent exponential passivity problem of the memristor-based recurrent neural networks (RNNs). Based on the knowledge of memristor and recurrent neural network, the model of the memristor-based RNNs is established. Taking into account of the information of the neuron activation functions and the involved time-varying delays, several improved results with less computational burden and conservatism have been obtained in the sense of Filippov solutions. A numerical example is presented to show the effectiveness of the obtained results. © 2013 The Franklin Institute.