Abstract

This paper develops some criteria for a kind of hybrid stochastic systems with time-delay, which improve existing results on hybrid systems without considering noises. The improved results show that the presence of noise is quite involved in the stability analysis of hybrid systems. New results can be used to analyze the stability of a kind of stochastic hybrid impulsive and switching neural networks (SHISNN). Therefore, stability analysis of SHISNN can be turned into solving a linear matrix inequality (LMI).

1. Introduction

With the development of social production, many practical systems cannot be modeled by linear time-invariant systems. In this case, hybrid systems are employed to model many practical systems. A hybrid system is a dynamical system with continuous dynamics, discrete dynamics, and the interaction between them (see, e.g., [1–3]). Hybrid systems are important from both the practical and theoretical point of view. In fact, hybrid systems naturally represent a wide class of practical systems which are subject to known or unknown abrupt parameter variations and which undergo sudden change of system structures due to the failure of a component. Another practical motivation for studying hybrid dynamical systems originates from the fact that the hybrid control scheme provides an effective approach for controlling highly nonlinear complex dynamical systems and systems with uncertain and/or unknown parameters. From theoretical viewpoints, the interactions between low-level continuous dynamics and high-level discrete logics, mainly governed by the switching and impulsive mechanisms, bring new challenges beyond the conventional system theory. An area of particular interest has been the analysis of stability of hybrid dynamical systems (see, e.g., [4–9]).

Impulsive stabilization of dynamical systems has attracted increasing interests in fields such as population dynamics, automatic control, drug administration, and communication networks (see [4, 5, 8]) and references therein). In many cases, impulsive stabilization may give better performance than continuous stabilization since the former is implemented only at impulsive instants (see [10]) while the latter does so at every moment (see [5]). Even in some cases, only impulsive stabilization can be used for control purpose. For instance, a central bank cannot change its interest rate every day in order to regulate the money supply in a financial market. The fundamental theoretic and systemic method of impulsive dynamical systems have been established in the recent years (see [1, 5]).

On the other hand, many real systems are subject to stochastic effects, which may result from abrupt phenomena such as stochastic failures and repairs of the components, changes in the interconnections of subsystems, and sudden environment changes. In the past decade years, the stability and stabilization of stochastic dynamic systems have been intensively investigated. Hence, the theory of hybrid stochastic systems has attracted increasing attention because the relating problems are not only academically challenging, but also of practical importance in many branches of science and engineering (see, e.g., [10, 11]). These systems are adequate mathematical models for many processes and phenomena studied in biology, physics technology, electric power systems, population dynamics, solar-powered systems, and so on (see, e.g., [12]). Consequently, the stability analysis of hybrid stochastic systems has been studied by many researchers (see, e.g., [13–18]). For example, the classical stochastic analysis theory studies stability not only in moment sense but also in almost sure sense (see, e.g., [13]). In paper [14], some sufficient conditions for the existence and global -exponential stability of periodic solution for impulsive stochastic neural networks with delays are given. In paper [15–18], stability of some kinds of stochastic equations is discussed.

However, among the existing results, up to now, very little is known about the stability of hybrid stochastic systems (HSS) with time-delay. In this paper, the stability of HSS with time-delay has been discussed. Some new results of the stability of HSS with time-delay have been attained in this paper. New results can be used to analyze the stability of a kind of stochastic hybrid impulsive and switching neural networks (SHISNN). Therefore, stability analysis of SHISNN can be turned into solving a linear matrix inequality.

This paper is organized as follows. In Section 2, the hybrid stochastic system model and some kinds of stability definition are defined. In Section 3, several criteria for th moment global asymptotical and exponential stability are established. In Section 4, 2th moment global asymptotical and exponential stability for a kind of stochastic hybrid impulsive and switching neural networks is presented.

2. Preliminaries

Throughout this paper, unless otherwise specified, we will employ the following definitions. Let be a complete probability space with filtration satisfying the usual conditions (i.e., it is right continuous and contains all null sets) and let be the expectation operator with respect to the probability space. is -dimensional Brownian defined on . is Euclidean norm of .

Consider the following HSS with time-delay: where is the state variable, is the initial time, is the positive integers, the time sequence satisfies and . Furthermore, we suppose

HSS (1) satisfies conditions (H₁)–(H₃) at any bounded interval : (H₁) are continuous functions with for ; (H₂)there exists nonnegative constant sequence such that ; ;  (H₃)let be a random variable which is independent of the -algebra generated by ( is a -dimensional normal Brownian motion), and .

Let . And denotes the working time of the subsystem during the interval . In addition, let denote the Lebesgue measure of the set . Then HSS (1) can be written as where and ; furthermore, for all .

Let , and , , where is a given constant and denote the family of all nonnegative functions on that are twice continuously differentiable in and once in . If , define an operator associated with HSS (3) from to by where , The purpose of this paper is to develop some stability criteria for systems (1) and (3).

Definition 1. (i) th moment asymptotically stable: the trivial of HSS (1) and (3) is th moment asymptotically stable if there exists such that
(ii) th moment exponentially stable: the trivial of HSS (1) and (3) is th moment exponentially stable if there exist positive constants such that
(iii) Asymptotically stable in mean square: the trivial of HSS (1) and (3) is asymptotically stable in mean square if there exists such that
(iv) Exponentially stable in mean square: the trivial of HSS (1) and (3) is th moment exponentially stable if there exist positive constants such that

Definition 2. if is differentiable at its right side.
Moreover, in order to finish our results, we will introduce the following lemmas.

Lemma 3. Let be a nonnegative function defined on the interval and be continuous on the interval . Assume that where and are nonnegative constants satisfying . Then where and satisfies

Lemma 4. If , then for .

3. Main Results

In this section, we will present some criteria for the stability of systems (3).

Theorem 5. If there exist switching Lyapunov functions and positive number such that where , and such that is a continuous function on . Then implies that the trivial solution of (3) is th moment globally asymptotically stable, and where and are constants, implies that the trivial solution of (3) is th moment globally exponentially stable.

Proof. For any , we denote the solution of (3) by . Let be the switching Lyapunov function . From Ito differential formula, for , we have Let be small enough such that . Then Hence, .
It follows from condition (14) that we have And it follows from Lemma 3 that there exists such that satisfies the following equation: Hence, it follows from condition (17) and (18) that we have Therefore, when , It follows from the above discussion that which implies the conclusions of the theorem. The proof is thus completed.

Using the proof techniques in Theorem 5, we can obtain Corollaries 6–8.

Corollary 6. Assume that conditions in Theorem 5 hold. Then, the trivial solution of (3) is th moment globally exponentially stable if one of the following conditions is satisfied.(i) for all , and there exists a constant such that (ii), and there exist two positive constants and such that and

Proof. When , it follows from (29) that Letting = and noting , we can obtain from Theorem 5 that the trivial solution of (3) is th moment globally exponentially stable.
When , it follows from (30) that
Letting = and noting that , we conclude the proof.

Corollary 7. In Theorem 5, if there exist switching Lyapunov functions ,  is a positive-definite matrix and , denote the maximum (minimum) eigenvalue of positive-definite matrices and such that where , and such that is a continuous function on . Then implies that the trivial solution of (3) is globally asymptotically stable in mean square, and where and are constants, implies that the trivial solution of (3) is globally exponentially stable in mean square.

Proof. When is a positive-definite matrix, there exists an orthogonal matrix (is an identity matrix) such that is eigenvalue of positive-definite matrix , and Here, , and Hence, we have Let and = ; in this situation, it is similar to condition (17) in Theorem 5 and ; furthermore, condition (34) is similar to condition (15) in Theorem 5 (, ).
Similar to the proof of Theorem 5, we can easily complete the proof of Corollary 7.