On synchronization of coupled neural networks with discrete and unbounded distributed delays

In this paper, we deal with the synchronization problem for an array of linearly coupled neural networks with simultaneous presence of both the discrete and unbounded distributed time-delays. By utilizing a novel Lyapunov–Krasovskii functional and the Kronecker product, it is shown that the addressed synchronization problem is solvable if several linear matrix inequalities (LMIs) are feasible. Hence, different from the commonly used matrix norm theories (such as the M-matrix method), a unified LMI approach is developed to establish sufficient conditions for the coupled neural networks to be globally synchronized, where the LMIs can be easily solved by using the Matlab LMI toolbox and no tuning of parameters is required. It is also shown that the synchronization of coupled neural networks with bounded distributed delays is just a special case of our main results. A numerical example is provided to show the usefulness of the proposed global synchronization condition.

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