Abstract and Applied Analysis

Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 647561, 13 pages

doi:10.1155/2012/647561

Research Article

Impulsive Control for the Synchronization of Chaotic Systems with Time Delay

Ming Han,¹ Yang Liu,¹ and Jianquan Lu²

¹College of Mathematics, Physics and Information Engineering, Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua 321004, China

²Department of Mathematics, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, China

Received 21 August 2012; Accepted 9 October 2012

Academic Editor: Jinde Cao

Copyright © 2012 Ming Han et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Abstract.

This paper considers impulsive control for the synchronization of chaotic systems with time delays. Based on the Lyapunov functions and the Razumikhin technique, some new synchronization criteria with an exponential convergence rate are derived. Our results show that impulses do contribute to globally exponential synchronization of dynamical systems. Besides, the impulsive moments are independent of the upper bound of time delays. Furthermore, a bigger upper bound of impulsive intervals for the synchronization of chaotic systems can be obtained when compared with many previous studies. Hence, our results are less conservative and more effective for the synchronization analysis. A numerical example is given to show the validity and potential of the developed results.

1. Introduction

In the last two decades, control and synchronization problems of chaotic systems have been extensively studied, due to their potential applications in many areas. For instance, they are used to understand self-organizational behavior in the brain as well as in ecological systems, and they also have been applied to produce secure message communication between a sender and a receiver. So far, different synchronization techniques have been proposed and implemented in practice, such as PC (Pecora and Carroll) method [1], active control [2], adaptive control [3, 4], sliding mode control [5], and impulsive method [6–12].

Impulsive phenomena exist in many biological systems and mechanics fields. Impulsive control has been widely studied and gradually become an interesting and useful synchronization approach [13–16]. Impulsive control can provide an efficient method for some cases in which the systems cannot endure continuous disturbance. The main idea of the impulsive control strategy is to change the states of a system by some sudden jumps instantaneously. Furthermore, using the impulsive control method, the response system needs to receive the information from the drive system only at some discrete instants which means that impulsive control is easier to be implemented to some extent. The asymptotical synchronization of chaotic systems without time delay [17–20] and with time delay [21, 22] has been widely investigated by using impulsive control. However, most of the previous impulsive stability criteria are only valid for some specific systems with small delays due to the restrictive requirement that the time delays are required to be smaller than the length of impulsive interval [23–25].

In this paper, we will investigate globally exponential synchronization of coupled chaotic systems with time delay by using impulsive control. The main contributions of this paper include the following. (i) Our results show that impulses do contribute to globally exponential synchronization of dynamical systems and the time delays in systems not to be smaller than the length of impulsive intervals. Therefore, they can be usually used as an effective control strategy to synchronize the underlying delayed dynamical systems in more practical application. (ii) A new approach for the exponential synchronization of impulsive chaotic systems with any finite delay is given. (iii) In order to deal with uncertainty and/or measurement noise effectively in nominal case for identical chaotic and hyperchaotic systems, the impulse distance should increases which in turn decreases the control cost in accordance with [19]. Thus, having a minimum level of synchronization error with the largest impulsive intervals is generally desired [26]. In our proposed results, a bigger upper bound of impulsive intervals for the synchronization of chaotic systems can be obtained by comparing with the results in [13–16]. It should also be noticed that our paper was inspired in part by the work of Zhou and Wu in [27] for delayed linear differential equations.

The rest of this paper is organized as follows. In Section 2, the problem and some preliminaries are presented. The main result on exponential synchronization is given in Section 3. Section 4 gives an example for illustration, and some conclusions are finally drawn in Section 5.

2. Preliminaries

Denote that is the set of real numbers, is the set of nonnegative real numbers, is the -dimensional real space, and is the set of positive integers. Let and . For with and for , we define the following function: , for all , for all and , for all but at most a finite number of points . For , the norm of is, respectively, defined by are defined by and for .

Now we introduce the coupled chaotic systems that will be studied. It usually consists of two chaotic systems at the transmitter and the receiver ends.

At the transmitter end, we have

and, at the receiver end, we have

where the matrices ,   are the synchronization error states between the states of system (2.1) and system (2.2), and the functions are the continuous functions in their respective domain of definition. The time sequence satisfies ,  , the time delay , and , in which for . A typical form of the function is given as follows:

where are constant matrices. The second term is known as the delayed feedback controller, which is applied to the input state and then influences the system function.

Then, we can get the following error dynamical system:

where .

Obviously, is a trivial solution of system (2.4). We shall analyze the dynamics of system (2.4) and drive criteria under which its trivial solution is globally exponentially stable. It is clear that the globally and exponential stability of trivial solution of (2.4) implies the global synchronization of systems (2.1) and (2.2).

For a given and , the initial value problem of (2.4) is

We assume that (2.4) has a unique solution with respect to initial conditions. Denote by the solution of (2.4) such that ,  . Also we assume that the function satisfies the following assumption: for certain positive definite matrix , there exist constant matrices ,  , such that

Now we have the following definitions.

Definition 2.1. The trivial solution of (2.4) is said to be globally and exponentially stable if for any initial data and , there exist some constants and such that

Definition 2.2. Given a function , the upper right-hand derivative of with respect to system (2.4) is defined by

3. Synchronization of Chaotic Systems

In the following, we shall address the exponential stability problem for impulsive delayed nonlinear differential equation (2.4), which implies the global synchronization of two chaotic systems. Our result shows that impulses play an important role in making the delayed nonlinear differential equations globally and exponentially stable.

Theorem 3.1. Let be a positive definite matrix and be largest eigenvalue of . Assume that there exist constants ,   with and ,  , such that for all , one has

(i)

(ii)

where ,(iii)

Then, the trivial solution of system (2.4) is globally and exponentially stable with a convergence rate of for any fixed delay , that is, system (2.1) and system (2.2) are globally and exponentially synchronized.

Proof. Let be any solution of system (2.5), and consider a Lyapunov function as follows:

Let and be the smallest and largest eigenvalues of positive definite matrix , respectively. Then, we can obtain

Now, we are in a position to prove that, for any ,

For , it follows from assumption (2.6) and condition (i) that

It further follows from condition (i) that

Defining in condition (iii), we have

Then, in view of the inequality in (3.9), we can find constant such that

which shows that

Firstly, we prove that

To do this, we only need to prove that

If the inequality (3.13) is not true, it follows from (3.11) that there must exist some such that

which implies that there exists such that

and there exists such that

Hence, for any , we can obtain that

By condition (ii), (3.8), and (3.17), we can obtain

which shows that

It is obviously a contradiction. Hence, (3.12) holds, and then (3.6) is true for . Now, we suppose that (3.6) holds for   , that is,

Next, we will prove that (3.6) holds for , that is,

For the sake of contradiction, we suppose that (3.21) is not true. Then, we define

From condition (iii) and (3.20), we can get

and so . By the continuity of in the interval , we obtain

From (3.23), we can derive that there exists such that

As for any ,  , then either or . These two cases will be discussed in the following.

If , from (3.20), we have

whereas if , from (3.24), then

Above all, from (3.25)–(3.27), we can obtain, for any ,

Hence, by condition (ii), (3.8), and (3.28), we can conclude that

Thus, in view of condition (iii), we have

which is a contradiction. It implies that the supposition is not true. Hence, (3.6) holds for , then, we can conclude by some induction that (3.6) holds for any . It immediately follows from (3.6) that

that is, the trivial solution of the impulsive delayed system (2.5) is globally and exponentially stable with a convergence rate of for any fixed delays . Then, it implies that system (2.1) and system (2.2) are globally synchronized. The proof is thus complete.

Remark 3.2. In LMI (3.1) of Theorem 3.1, the constant is used to measure the level of instability for delay-free system and is determined by the matrix , while is decided by the matrix .

Remark 3.3. Compared with Theorem 3.1 in [28], a distinct feature of Theorem 3.1 in this paper is to eliminate the restriction that the impulsive interval can not be too large, that is, the additional assumption (iv) in Theorem 3.1 of [28] is indeed deleted here. Moreover, a controlled parameter is introduced to adjust the degree of convergence rate on globally exponential stability of the error system (2.4). It should be mentioned that our results allow us to develop an effective impulse control strategy to exponentially synchronize chaotic systems, and it is particularly meaningful for some practical applications.

Similarly to Theorem 3.1, we can obtain the following result.

Corollary 3.4. Let be a symmetric and positive definite matrix, , where is given by Theorem 3.1 for each . Assume that there exist constants ,   with , such that for all the following are satisfied:

(i)

(ii)

Then, the trivial solution of system (2.4) is globally and exponentially stable for any fixed delay , that is, system (2.1) and system (2.2) are globally and exponentially synchronized.

Proof. Condition (ii) in Theorem 3.1 can be reduced to the following form:

Then, it is easy to get the following inequality, which is equivalent to (3.34) and condition (iii) in Theorem 3.1:

Hence, there must exist a small-enough real number such that (3.35) holds. And if is extremely tiny, we can obtain that condition (ii) in Corollary 3.4 holds. From Theorem 3.1, the proof is completed.

Remark 3.5. As Corollary 3.4 can be applied to deal with globally exponential stability of impulsive differential equations with any time delays , it is obviously more applicable than those existing in the works in the recent literature [23–25, 28] where the time delays need to be assumed not bigger than the length of impulsive interval. In view of Corollary 3.4, it is clear that we have removed the restriction of time delay indeed.

Remark 3.6. Since the amount of transmitted information decreases leading to reduced control cost, the cost of impulsive synchronization of chaotic systems is closely related to the impulse distances and having a minimum level of synchronization error with the largest impulsive intervals as generally a desired [26]. From the proposed result in Corollary 3.4, the upper bound of impulsive intervals for the globally and exponentially synchronization can be given by for each . From the following numerical example, we will show that our upper bound of impulsive intervals is bigger than some existing results.

4. Numerical Simulation

In this section, an example is presented here to illustrate our main results.

Example 4.1. Consider the Lorenz system in [13] as follows:

where ,  ,  , and . Let , then we can rewrite the Lorenz system in the form of (2.1) as follows:

where

We also choose defined by (2.3) with . Set the delay and the impulsive matrices for all . Then, it can be observed that inequality (2.6) holds with .

Solving (3.1) in Theorem 3.1, we get that ,  , and . Since , we can get . According to condition (ii) in Corollary 3.4, when

the trivial solution of error system based on impulsive delayed differential equation (4.1) is globally exponentially stable for any fixed delay . With the same parameter, a comparison of the upper bound of impulsive intervals with [13–16] is presented in Table 1, which shows that our upper bound is much bigger. Choose , and the simulation result of error system is shown in Figure 1.

Table 1: A comparison of the upper bound of impulsive intervals of (4.1).

Corollary 3.4
[13]
[14]
[15, 16]

0.0396
0.0072
0.0108
0.0178

Figure 1: The trajectories of the error Lorenz system under impulsive controller with .

5. Conclusion

In this paper, we have investigated the synchronization of coupled chaotic systems with time delay by using impulsive control. The time delays in systems need not to be smaller than the length of impulsive interval as many works existing in the literature assumed. A numerical example has been given to demonstrate the effectiveness of the theoretical results, and the estimation of the stable region of the impulsive intervals has also been presented. By comparison, the upper bound of impulsive intervals is greater than it was in some existing results. The obtained results can be easily used to control many systems, especially to stabilize and synchronize chaotic systems.

Acknowledgments

The authors would like to take this opportunity to thank Professor. Jinde Cao and the reviewers for their constructive comments and useful suggestions. This work was partially supported by the NNSF of China (Grants nos. 61175119, 11101373, 11271333, and 61074011), the NSF of Jiangsu Province of China (Grant no. BK2010408), Huo Ying-Dong Education Foundation (Grant no. 132037), and Zhejiang Innovation Project, China (Grant no. T200905).

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