A special recurrent neural network (RNN), that is the zeroing neural network (ZNN), is adopted to find solutions to time-varying quadratic programming (TVQP) problems with equality and inequality constraints. However, there are some weaknesses in activation functions of traditional ZNN models, including convex restriction and redundant formulation. With the aid of different activation functions, modified ZNN models are obtained to overcome the drawbacks for solving TVQP problems. Theoretical and experimental research indicate that the proposed models are better and more effective at solving such TVQP problems.
| INTRODUCTIONAs a kind of common and basic optimisation problem [1], the quadratic programming (QP) problem is extensively available in various scientific and technological fields [2,3], such as pattern recognition [4], signal processing [5,6] and robotics [7][8][9][10]. In order to deal with such problems, numerous target approaches are put forward, most of which require numerical calculations. However, the complexity and costs of numerically solving QP problems are rather high, which is proportional to the cube of the dimension of its associated Hessian matrix [11][12][13]. Therefore, when dealing with relatively complex problems, most Xiaoyan Zhang and Liangming Chen are co-first authors and they are graduate students.This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.