Approximation of state variables for discrete-time stochastic genetic regulatory networks with leakage, distributed, and probabilistic measurement delays: a robust stability problem
https://doi.org/10.1186/s13662-018-1569-z
© The Author(s) 2018
Received: 19 July 2017
Accepted: 20 March 2018
Published: 3 April 2018
Abstract
This work predominantly labels the problem of approximation of state variables for discrete-time stochastic genetic regulatory networks with leakage, distributed, and probabilistic measurement delays. Here we design a linear estimator in such a way that the absorption of mRNA and protein can be approximated via known measurement outputs. By utilizing a Lyapunov–Krasovskii functional and some stochastic analysis execution, we obtain the stability formula of the estimation error systems in the structure of linear matrix inequalities under which the estimation error dynamics is robustly exponentially stable. Further, the obtained conditions (in the form of LMIs) can be effortlessly solved by some available software packages. Moreover, the specific expression of the desired estimator is also shown in the main section. Finally, two mathematical illustrative examples are accorded to show the advantage of the proposed conceptual results.
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1 Introduction and system formulation
A gene is a physical structure made up of DNA, and most of the genes hold the data which is required to make molecules called as proteins. In the modern years, research in genetic regulatory networks (GRNs) has gained significance in both biological and bio-medical sciences, and a huge number of tremendous results have been issued. Distinct kinds of computational models have been applied to propagate the behaviors of GRNs; see, for instance, the Bayesian network models, the Petri net models, the Boolean models, and the differential equation models. Surrounded by the indicated models, the differential equation models describe the rate of change in the concentration of gene production, such as mRNAs and proteins, as constant values, whereas the other models do not have such a basis.
As one of the mostly investigated dynamical behaviors, the state estimation for GRNs has newly stirred increasing research interest (see [1, 2] and the references cited therein [1, 3–10]). In fact, this is an immense concern since GRNs are complex nonlinear systems. Due to the complication, it is frequently the case that only partial facts around the states of the nodes are accessible in the network outputs. In consideration of realizing the GRNs better, there has been a necessity to estimate the state of the nodes through securable measurements. In [1], the robust \(H_{\infty}\) problem was considered for a discrete-time stochastic GRNs with probabilistic measurement delays. In [2], the robust \(H_{\infty}\) state estimation problem was investigated for a general class of uncertain discrete-time stochastic neural networks with probabilistic measurement delays. By designing an adaptive controller, the authors investigated the problem of delayed GRNs stabilization in [7]. Xiao et al. discussed the stability, periodic oscillation, and bifurcation of two-gene regulatory networks with time delays [8]. The stability of continuous GRNs and discrete-time GRNs was discussed, respectively, in [11]. Huang et al. considered the bifurcation of delayed fractional GRNs by hybrid control [12].
Due to the limited signal communication speed, the measurement among the networks is always assumed to be a delayed one. So, the network measurement could not include instruction about the present gene states, while the delayed network measurement could. The most fashionable mechanism to relate the probabilistic measurement delay or some other kind of lacking measurement is to grab it as a Bernoulli distributed white classification [13–20]. The robust stochastic stability of stochastic genetic GRNs was considered, and some delay-dependent criteria were presented in the form of LMIs [18]. And the asymptotic stability of delayed stochastic GRNs with impulsive effect was discussed in [19]. The synchronization problem of dynamical system was also discussed in [21, 22]. The challenging task is how to draft the robust estimators when both uncertainties and probabilistic appeared in discrete-time GRN models.
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We examine the approximation concern for the discrete-time stochastic GRNs with the leakage delays, distributed delays, and probabilistic measurement delays into the problem and model the robust \(H_{\infty}\) state estimator for a class of discrete-time stochastic GRNs. Here, the probabilistic measurement delays, which narrate the binary shifting sequence, are satisfied by the conditional probability distribution. So, the crisis of parameter uncertainties, including errors, stochastic disturbance, leakage delays, distributed delays, and the activation function of the addressed GRNs, is identified by sector-bounded nonlinearities.
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By applying the Lyapunov stability theory and stochastic analysis techniques, sufficient conditions are first entrenched to assure the presence of the desired estimators in terms of a linear matrix inequality (LMI). These circumstances are reliant on both the lower and upper bounds of time-varying delays. Again, the absolute expression of the desired estimator is demonstrated to assure the estimation error dynamics to be robustly exponentially stable in the mean square for the consigned system.
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Finally, twin mathematical examples beside with simulations are given to view the capability of the advanced criteria.
2 Preliminaries
Notations: Throughout the paper, \(\mathit{naturals}^{+}\) refers to the position for the set of nonnegative integers; \(\mathbb{R}^{n}\) indicates the n-dimensional Euclidean space. The superscript “T” acts as the matrix transposition. The code \(X\geq Y\) (each \(X>Y\)), where X and Y are symmetric matrices, means that \(X-Y\) is positive semi-definitive (respectively positive definite). I means the identity matrix with consistent dimension. The symbol “∗” denotes the term symmetry. In addition, \(E\{\cdot\}\) denotes the expectation operator. \(L_{2}[0,\infty)\) is the amplitude of square-integrable vector functions over \([0,\infty)\). \(|\cdot|\) denotes the Euclidean vector norm. Matrices, if not absolutely specified, are affected to have compatible dimensions.
Assumption 1
The parameter uncertainties \(\Delta\mathbb{A}(k)\), \(\Delta\mathbb {B}(k)\), \(\Delta\mathbb{C}(k)\), \(\Delta\mathbb{D}(k)\), \(\Delta E(k)\), \(\Delta F(k)\) are of the following form.
Assumption 2
Definition 2.1
Definition 2.2
The following lemmas are crucial in implementing our main results.
Lemma 2.3
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For any \(\epsilon>0\), \(NF(k)S+S^{T}F^{T}(k)N^{T}\leq \epsilon^{-1}NN^{T}+\epsilon S^{T}S\).
- (ii)
For any \(P>0\), \(\pm2 x^{T}y\leq x^{T}P^{-1}x+y^{T}Py\).
Lemma 2.4
Lemma 2.5
Remark 2.1
In [1] Wang et al. investigated the robust state estimation for stochastic genetic regulatory networks with probabilistic delays in discrete sense, and Lv et al. [4] developed the robust distributed state estimation for genetic regulatory networks with Markovian jumping parameters. However, the inclusion of discrete-interval GRNs with leakage delays, probabilistic measurement delays, noise, and distributed delays has not been taken into account. So, the prime intention of this work is to elucidate that the state estimation problem for the improved system (8) with leakage delays is robustly exponentially stable.
3 Exponential stability criterion
In this part, we first introduce a sufficient condition under which the augmented system (8) is robustly mean-square exponentially stable with the exogenous disturbance signals \(v_{x}(k)=0\) and \(v_{y}(k)=0\).
Theorem 3.1
Proof
Remark 3.1
In this paper, we have considered the time-varying delays \(\delta(k)\), \(\tau(k)\) and the leakage delays \(\rho_{1}\), \(\rho_{2}\) in the negative feedback term of the GRNs which lead to the instability of the systems with small amount of leakage delay. This paper is to establish techniques to accord with the robust \(H_{\infty}\) state estimation concern for uncertain discrete stochastic GRNs (equation (1)) with leakage delays, distributed delays, and probabilistic measurement delays.
Consider that the \(H_{\infty}\) attainment of the estimation error system (8) is robustly stochastically stable with non-zero exogenous disturbance signals \(v_{x}(k), v_{y}(k)\in L_{2} [0,\infty)\).
Theorem 3.2
Proof
Theorem 3.3
Proof
The rest of the proof of this theorem is the same as that of Theorem 3.2. Due to the limitation of the length of this paper, we omit it here. Then the proof of Theorem 3.3 is completed. □
Corollary 3.1
4 Numerical examples
In this part, two mathematical examples with simulations are provided to show the effectiveness of the proposed robust state estimator.
Example 4.1
mRNA and protein concentration
Estimation error for mRNA and protein concentration
Example 4.2
The state response \(x(t)\), \(y(t)\) of equation (47) with the mRNA and protein concentrations
5 Conclusions
In this paper, we have studied the approximation concern for the discrete-time stochastic GRNs with the leakage delays, distributed delays, and probabilistic measurement delays into the problem and modeled the robust \(H_{\infty}\) state estimator for a class of discrete-time stochastic GRNs. Here, the probabilistic measurement delays, which narrate the binary shifting sequence, are satisfied by the conditional probability distribution. So, the crisis of parameter uncertainties, including errors, stochastic disturbance, leakage delays, distributed delays, and the activation function of the addressed GRNs, is identified by sector-bounded nonlinearities. By applying the Lyapunov stability theory and stochastic analysis techniques, sufficient conditions are first entrenched to assure the presence of the desired estimators in terms of a linear matrix inequality (LMI). These circumstances are reliant on both the lower and upper bounds of time-varying delays. Again, the absolute expression of the desired estimator is demonstrated to assure the estimation error dynamics to be robustly exponentially stable in the mean square for the consigned system. Lastly, numerical simulations have been utilized to illustrate the suitability and usefulness of our advanced theoretical results.
Declarations
Acknowledgements
This work was jointly supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No. 61573096, the Jiangsu Provincial Key Laboratory of Networked Collective Intelligence under Grant No. BM2017002, the Thailand research grant fund No. RSA5980019 and Maejo University.
Authors’ contributions
All authors contributed equally and significantly in writing this article. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
Competing interests
The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
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