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Operation and Update of the State Neurons

The network's dynamics are governed by a set of nonlinear coupled differential equations of the form:

 

or in a general form:

 

where the corresponds to an input bias to neuron i, and the term introduces an element of decay into the network's dynamics, which can be used to ensure that u variables remain bounded in magnitude.

To make sure that stability of the of the net is guaranteed, is updated continuously by evaluating as a function of the total input to the neuron.

 

where

 

So, the overall dynamics of the network is governed by equations (7) and (8).



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