Exponential synchronization of coupled neutral-type neural networks with mixed delays via quantized output control

In this paper, new control scheme is considered for exponential synchronization of coupled neutral-type neural networks (NTNNs) with both bounded discrete-time delay and unbounded distributed delay (mixed delays). It is assumed that only the measured output can be utilized to design the controller. Quantized output controllers (QOCs) are considered to save the bits rate of communication channels and the bandwidth. The main difficulty in solving this problem is to cope with the neutral terms, the delays, and the uncertainties induced by the quantization simultaneously. By designing new Lyapunov–Krasovskii functionals and proposing novel analytical techniques, sufficient conditions are derived to ensure the exponential synchronization of the interested NTNNs. The control gains are given by solving a set of linear matrix inequalities (LMIs), which are not necessarily to be negative-definite matrices. Numerical examples are provided to verify the effectiveness and merits of the proposed approach.