Abstract
This paper concentrates on the problem of H∞ state estimation for quaternion-valued inertial neural networks (QVINNs) with nonidentical time-varying delay. Without reducing the original second order system into two first order systems, a non-reduced order method is developed to investigate the addressed QVINNs, which is different from the majority of existing references. By constructing a new Lyapunov functional with tuning parameters, some easily checked algebraic criteria are established to ascertain the asymptotic stability of error-state system with the desired H∞ performance. Moreover, an effective algorithm is provided to design the estimator parameters. Finally, a numerical example is given out to illustrate the feasibility of the designed state estimator.