Aperiodically intermittent control for synchronization of discrete-time delayed neural networks

This paper is concerned with the aperiodically intermittent control (AIC) for the synchronization of discrete-time neural networks with time delay. The synchronization is analyzed by the piecewise Lyapunov function approach and the piecewise Lyapunov–Krasovskii functional approach, respectively. The average activation time ratio of AIC is estimated, which is more general and less conservative than the minimum activation time ratio. Finally, a numerical example is exploited and detailed comparisons are presented to demonstrate the effectiveness and less conservativeness of the obtained results.