Synchronization of reaction–diffusion neural networks with time-varying delays via stochastic sampled-data controller

Abstract

This paper discusses the synchronization problem for a class of reaction–diffusion neural networks with Dirichlet boundary conditions. Unlike other studies, a sampled-data controller with stochastic sampling is designed in order to synchronize the concerned neural networks with reaction–diffusion terms and time-varying delays, where $$m$$ sampling periods are considered whose occurrence probabilities are given constants and satisfy the Bernoulli distribution. A novel discontinuous Lyapunov–Krasovskii functional with triple integral terms is introduced based on the extended Wirtinger’s inequality. Using Jensen’s inequality and reciprocally convex technique in deriving the upper bound for the derivative of the Lyapunov–Krasovskii functional, some new synchronization criteria are obtained in terms of linear matrix inequalities. Numerical examples are provided in order to show the effectiveness of the proposed theoretical results.