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Erschienen in: Soft Computing 5/2020

17.06.2019 | Methodologies and Application

Extended dissipativity and event-triggered synchronization for T–S fuzzy Markovian jumping delayed stochastic neural networks with leakage delays via fault-tolerant control

verfasst von: M. Syed Ali, R. Vadivel, Ahmed Alsaedi, Bashir Ahmad

Erschienen in: Soft Computing | Ausgabe 5/2020

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Abstract

This paper concentrates on the extended dissipativity and event-triggered synchronization for T–S fuzzy Markovian jumping delayed stochastic neural networks with leakage delays and fault-tolerant control. We present an event-triggered communication scheme, which utilizes the effect of transmission delay with different failure rates. After giving a foundation to the stochastic model, the paper establishes some fundamental results on quadratically stable and extended dissipativity utilizing the Lyapunov functional, free-weight matrices, as well as the relationship between time-varying delay and leakage delays. The explicit expression of the desired controller gains and event-triggered parameters can be obtained by solving the established LMIs. The novel extended dissipative inequality contains several weighting matrices, by converting the weighting matrices in a new performance index, and the extended dissipativity will be degraded to the \(H_{\infty }\) performance, \(L_2-L_{\infty }\) performance, passivity and dissipativity, respectively. Finally, interesting numerical examples are given to show the effectiveness of the theoretical results.

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Metadaten
Titel
Extended dissipativity and event-triggered synchronization for T–S fuzzy Markovian jumping delayed stochastic neural networks with leakage delays via fault-tolerant control
verfasst von
M. Syed Ali
R. Vadivel
Ahmed Alsaedi
Bashir Ahmad
Publikationsdatum
17.06.2019
Verlag
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Erschienen in
Soft Computing / Ausgabe 5/2020
Print ISSN: 1432-7643
Elektronische ISSN: 1433-7479
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00500-019-04136-7

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