Further improvement of finite-time boundedness based nonfragile state feedback control for generalized neural networks with mixed interval time-varying delays via a new integral inequality

This article investigates new delay-dependent finite-time boundedness for generalized neural networks (GNNs) with mixed-interval time-varying delays based on nonfragile feedback control to achieve the improved stability criterion. We also propose a new integral inequality with an exponential function to estimate the derivative of the Lyapunov–Krasovskii functional (LKF). Furthermore, the well-known Wirtinger’s inequality is a particular case of the new integral inequality. Using a toolbox optimization in MATLAB, we derive and solve new delay-dependent conditions in terms of linear matrix inequalities (LMIs). Additionally, we give three numerical examples to show the advantages of our obtained methods. The examples can apply the continuous time-varying delays that do not need to be differentiable. One of them presents the benchmark problem’s real-world application, which is a four-tank system.