The article considers the impulsive synchronization for inertial neural networks with unbounded delay and actuator saturation via sampled-data control. Based on an impulsive differential inequality, the difficulties caused by unbounded delay and impulsive effect may be effectively avoid. By applying polytopic representation technique, the actuator saturation term is first considered into the design of impulsive controller, and less conservative linear matrix inequality (LMI) criteria that guarantee asymptotical synchronization for the considered model via hybrid control are given. As special cases, the asymptotical synchronization of the considered model via sampled-data control and saturating impulsive control are also studied, respectively. Numerical simulations are presented to claim the effectiveness of theoretical analysis. A new image encryption algorithm is proposed to utilize the synchronization theory of hybrid control. The validity of image encryption algorithm can be obtained by experiments.

This article investigates the issue of synchronization for a type of uncertain coupled neural networks (CNNs) involving time-varying delay with unmeasured or unknown bound by delayed impulsive control with distributed delay. A new Halanay-like delayed differential inequality is presented, and both cases of impulsive control and impulsive perturbation are well-considered. Stemmed from this new inequality and techniques of linear matrix inequalities (LMIs), some sufficient criteria are obtained to achieve both dynamically and statically global μ-synchronization of the delayed CNNs, and a distributed-delay-dependent impulsive controller is designed. A numerical simulation is provided to demonstrate the validity of the obtained theoretical results.