Exponential synchronization of Lur'e complex dynamical networks with uncertain inner coupling and pinning impulsive control

This paper is concerned with the exponential synchronization of Lur'e type complex dynamical networks with uncertain coupling strength. A novel pinning impulsive controller is designed to achieve synchronization, in which, only selection of nodes are chosen to control instead of the whole network. In addition, the proposed control scheme is digital and it can lead to low installation cost and less time. In order to realize synchronization of Lur'e type complex dynamical networks, crucial delay-dependent stability conditions are derived by utilizing Lyapunov functional together with information of the time-varying delay and convex combination technique. The resulting stability conditions are formulated in the form of linear matrix inequalities (LMIs) and by solving the obtained LMIs, desired impulsive control gain matrices are calculated, which are capable to guarantee the exponential stability of error system. Finally, the effectiveness of the proposed method is demonstrated through numerical simulations.