A New Settling-time Estimation Protocol to Finite-time Synchronization of Impulsive Memristor-Based Neural Networks

In this article, the issues of finite-time synchronization and finite-time adaptive synchronization for the impulsive memristive neural networks (IMNNs) with discontinuous activation functions (DAFs) and hybrid impulsive effects are probed into and elaborated on, where the stabilizing impulses (SIs), inactive impulses (IIs), and destabilizing impulses (DIs) are taken into account, respectively. Not resembling several earlier works, a more extensive range of impulses in the context of impulsive effects has been analyzed without using the known average impulsive interval strategy (AIIS). In light of the theories of differential inclusions and set-valued map, as well as impulsive control, new sufficient criteria with respect to the estimated settling time for synchronization of the related IMNNs are established using two types of switching control approaches, which sufficiently utilize information from not only the SIs, DIs, and DAFs but also the impulse sequences. Two simulation experiments are presented to the efficiency of the proposed results.