Energy dissipation is a fundamental concept in dynamical systems. Passivity and dissipativity characterize the "energy" consumption of a dynamical system and form a powerful tool in many real applications. Passivity is closely related to stability and exhibits a compositional property for parallel and feedback interconnections. Passivity-based control is especially useful in the analysis of complex coupled systems. In Chap. 8, passivity problem is studied for a kind of neural networks with delays. Dissipativity and invariant sets are also the qualitative characteristics of a dynamical system. Such qualitative characteristics as passivity, dissipativity, and invariant sets are extensions and upgrades of the stability property, which can characterize the dynamics of dynamical systems more general. Based on such analysis, in this chapter some sufficient conditions for dissipativity and invariant sets have been established for a kind of RNNs with delay. The contents in this chapter are some extensions of the stability results of previous chapters.
Delay-Dependent Dissipativity Conditionsfor Delayed RNNs
IntroductionSince the study of dissipative systems was initiated by Willems [1], and further addressed by Hill and Moylan [2], there has been a steady increase in the interest of dissipative systems in the past several decades. The reasons are as follows:(1) The dissipative theory gives a framework for the design and analysis of control systems using an input-output description based on energy-related considerations [3,4]. (2) The dissipative theory serves as a powerful or even indispensable tool in characterizing important system behaviors, such as stability and passivity, and has close connections with passivity theorem, bounded real lemma, Kalman-Yakubovich To name a few, by using a linear matrix inequality (LMI) approach, the problem of quadratic dissipative control for linear systems with or without uncertainty was studied in [6], where some necessary and sufficient conditions were presented for synthesis of feedback controllers to ensure the dissipativity of the resulting closed-loop system. In [7], by proposing multiple storage functions and multiple supply rates, a framework of dissipativity theory for switched systems was established. More recently, some dissipativity conditions were presented in [8] for singular systems. When stochastic noise was taken into consideration in studying dissipative systems, the problems of sliding mode control were tackled in [9]. In [10], the robust reliable dissipative filtering problem has been investigated for uncertain discrete-time singular system with interval time-varying delays and sensor failures. The problem of static output-feedback dissipative control has been studied for linear continuous-time system based on an augmented system approach in [11]. A necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of a desired controller has been given, and a corresponding iterative algorithm has also been developed to solve the condition.On the other hand, as a special class of...