Improved delay-dependent stability criteria for generalized neural networks with time-varying delays

This paper is concerned with the problem of stability analysis for generalized neural networks with time-varying delays. A novel integral inequality which includes several existing inequalities as special cases is presented. By employing a suitable Lyapunov-Krasovskii functional (LKF) and using the proposed integral inequality to estimate the derivative of the LKF, improved delay-dependent stability criteria expressed in terms of linear matrix inequalities are derived. Finally, four numerical examples are provided to demonstrate the effectiveness and the improvement of the proposed method.