Observer-Based Impulsive Synchronization for Neural Networks With Uncertain Exchanging Information

This article investigates synchronization for a group of discrete-time neural networks (NNs) with the uncertain exchanging information, which is caused by the uncertain connection weights among the NNs nodes, and they are transformed into a norm-bounded uncertain Laplacian matrix. Distributed impulsive observers, which possess the advantage of reducing the communication load among NNs nodes, are designed to observe the NNs state. The impulsive controller is proposed to improve the efficiency of the controller. An impulsive augmented error system (IAES) is obtained based on the matrix Kronecker product. A sufficient condition is established to ensure synchronization of the group of NNs by proving the stability of the IAES. An iterative algorithm is given to obtain a suboptimal allowed interval of the impulsive signal, and the corresponding gains of the observer and the controller are derived. The developed result is illustrated by a numerical example.