Asymptotic stability of cellular neural networks with multiple proportional delays

Proportional delay is a kind of unbounded time-varying delay, which is different from unbounded distributed delays. In this paper, asymptotic stability of the equilibrium point of cellular neural networks with multiple proportional delays is presented. Sufficient conditions for delay-dependent global asymptotic stability and delay-independent uniform asymptotic stability of the system are obtained by employing matrix theory and constructing Lyapunov functional. Two examples are given to illustrate the effectiveness of the obtained results and less conservative than previously existing results.