Mathematical Problems in Engineering

Volume 2014 (2014), Article ID 963081, 12 pages

http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/963081

Research Article

Robust Adaptive Exponential Synchronization of Stochastic Perturbed Chaotic Delayed Neural Networks with Parametric Uncertainties

Yang Fang,¹ Kang Yan,¹ and Kelin Li²

¹School of Automation and Electronic Information, Sichuan University of Science & Engineering, Sichuan 643000, China

²Institute of Nonlinear Science and Engineering Computing, Sichuan University of Science & Engineering, Sichuan 643000, China

Received 27 December 2013; Revised 23 May 2014; Accepted 23 May 2014; Published 23 June 2014

Academic Editor: Yang Tang

Copyright © 2014 Yang Fang 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 investigates the robust adaptive exponential synchronization in mean square of stochastic perturbed chaotic delayed neural networks with nonidentical parametric uncertainties. A robust adaptive feedback controller is proposed based on Gronwally’s inequality, drive-response concept, and adaptive feedback control technique with the update laws of nonidentical parametric uncertainties as well as linear matrix inequality (LMI) approach. The sufficient conditions for robust adaptive exponential synchronization in mean square of uncoupled uncertain stochastic chaotic delayed neural networks are derived in terms of linear matrix inequalities (LMIs). The effect of nonidentical uncertain parameter uncertainties is suppressed by the designed robust adaptive feedback controller rapidly. A numerical example is provided to validate the effectiveness of the proposed method.

1. Introduction

Synchronization of chaotic delayed neural networks has been an intensive topic because of its promising connections with many disciplines, such as image encryption [1], image processing [2], harmonic oscillation generation [3], and secure communications [4–6]. The diverse control schemes have been proposed for the synchronization of chaotic delayed neural networks, for example, adaptive control (see, [7–13]), slide mode control [14, 15], coupling control [16], feedback control [17–21], impulsive control [22–25], and sampled-data control [26–28].

The existence of random uncertainties such as stochastic noise in the electrical circuits design of neural networks possesses an important source in what may change or destroy the synchronization. Therefore, the stochastic effects must be taken into consideration for the synchronization problem of chaotic delayed neural networks. Some works on the synchronization of stochastic perturbed chaotic neural networks have been reported in the literature; see [8, 9, 17, 29, 30] and the references therein. The authors in [29] were concerned with the problem of exponential synchronization for stochastic jumping chaotic neural networks (SJCNNs) with mixed delays and sector nonlinearities by employed Lyapunov-Krasovskii functional and free-weighting matrix method and proposed a delay-dependent feedback controller with sector nonlinearities to achieve the synchronization in mean square in terms of linear matrix inequalities (LMIs). In [9], Zhu and Cao have derived some novel sufficient conditions achieving complete synchronization of unidirectionally coupled stochastic delayed neural networks by utilizing LaSalle invariant principle of stochastic differential delay equations and the stochastic analysis as well as the adaptive feedback control technique and LMI approach. Li et al. in [30] investigated the synchronization problem of a class of chaotic neural networks with time-varying delays and unbounded distributed delays under stochastic perturbations via Lyapunov-Krasovskii functional, drive-response concept, output coupling with delay feedback, and LMI approach, some sufficient conditions in terms of LMIs ensuring the exponential synchronization of the addressed neural networks are derived.

On the other hand, besides stochastic noise, it is well known that the effects of parametric uncertainties which may also destroy the stability of the controlled system cannot be ignored in many applications. However, all of the abovementioned works mainly focus on the stochastic perturbed chaotic delayed neural networks without parametric uncertainties. According to the best of our knowledge, there are still few results about the synchronization of stochastic perturbed chaotic delayed neural networks with nonidentical parametric uncertainties. This is the motivation of our research in the present paper.

In this paper, the main aim is to design a robust adaptive feedback controller with the update laws of nonidentical parametric uncertainties and find some sufficient conditions in order to guarantee exponential synchronization in mean square for uncoupled chaotic delayed neural networks with stochastic perturbation and parametric uncertainties. Based on Gronwally’s inequality, drive-response concept, adaptive feedback control technique, and linear matrix inequality (LMI) approach, several sufficient conditions in the form of linear matrix inequalities (LMIs) are derived to ensure exponential synchronization in mean square for uncoupled uncertain stochastic chaotic delayed neural networks. In addition, the existence of the desired controller can be validated by MATLAB LMI toolbox efficiently. The significant difference from previous results is that the nonidentical parametric uncertainties are entered into both the connection weight matrix and the delayed connection weight matrix in the drive-response systems. The task for compensating the nonidentical parametric uncertainties can be realized by the designed robust adaptive feedback controller rapidly. Moreover, we have pointed out that the LaSalle invariance principle for stochastic differential delay equation [31, Corollary 3.1] cannot be applied for the stability analysis of stochastic delayed systems without a trivial solution . Finally, a numerical example and its simulation are given to illustrate the usefulness of the given method.

Notation. Let denote the set of real numbers, let denote the set of all nonnegative real numbers, and and denote the -dimensional and dimensional real spaces equipped with the Euclidean norm; is the Euclidean norm of the vector . denotes the set of positive integers. For any matrix , denotes that is a symmetric and positive definite matrix. If and are symmetric matrices, then means that is a negative semidefinite matrix. and mean the transpose of and the inverse of a square matrix. denotes the identity matrix with appropriate dimensions. Let and denote the family of all continuous -valued functions on with the norm . Let denote the family of all measurable bounded -valued random variables , such that , where stands for the correspondent expectation operator with respect to the given probability measure . Let denote the family of all nonnegative functions on which are continuously twice differentiable in and differentiable in . The notation always denotes the symmetric block in one symmetric matrix.

2. Model Description and Preliminaries

Consider the following chaotic delayed neural networks with time-varying parametric uncertainties:

where is the neuron state vector, is a positive diagonal matrix, and are the connection weight matrix and the delayed connection weight matrix, respectively, are the time-varying parametric uncertainties, is the constant input vector, is the nonlinear neuron activation function which describes the behavior in which the neurons respond to each other, and the time delay is bounded and continuously differentiable function; that is, there exist two positive constants and , such that and .

For drive system (1), we construct the following response system with nonidentical parametric uncertainties and stochastic perturbation:

where is the neuron state vector of the response system; is an -dimensional Brown motion defined on a complete probability space with a natural filtration (i.e., ), which satisfies and ; is the noise intensity matrix; is the robust adaptive controller which will be designed to compensate the nonidentical parametric uncertainties.

Let be the synchronization error; then we can obtain the error system between systems (1) and (2) as follows:

where .

Throughout this paper, we assume that

(H1)[32] each neuron activation function is continuous with , and there exist positive scalars , such that

 for any , , , and ;(H2)the noise matrix is local Lipschitz continuous and satisfies the linear growth condition as well, and . Moreover, there exist two real positive matrices , , such that

 for all , ;(H3)the parametric uncertainties , , are in terms of

 where , , , and are known real constant matrices with appropriate dimensions and and are the uncertain matrices which are Lebesque measurable in and satisfy and ;(H4)there exist unknown constants , , such that

Remark 1. Considering Hypothesis (H1) and the boundedness of the chaotic signals, one can get that there exist positive constants and , such that

Remark 2. Let denote the state trajectory from the initial data on in . Although and , system (3) would not admit a unique solution or trivial solution . Thus, Hypothesis (H2) in [31] is not satisfied. Therefore, the LaSalle invariance principle for stochastic differential delay equation [31, Corollary 3.1] cannot be applied for the stability analysis of the error system (3) and other stochastic delayed systems without a trivial solution , which implies that the methods proposed in [26, 33, 34] are debatable. In order to release the restriction of the nonexistence of a trivial solution, we turn to utilize Gronwally’s inequality to ensure the rigorousness of mathematical proof.

The following definition and lemmas are useful for future derivations.

Definition 3. If the function , then an operator from along the trajectory of the error system (3) is defined as

where

Definition 4. Systems (1) and (2) are said to be exponentially synchronized in mean square if there exist constants and , such that and , where is called the decay rate of exponential synchronization.

Lemma 5 (Gronwally’s inequality (see [35])). Let and be a Borel measurable bounded nonnegative function on . If

for some constants , , then

Lemma 6 (see [36]). If and are real matrices with appropriate dimensions, then there exists a number , such that

3. Main Results

In this section, the robust adaptive exponential synchronization in mean square for the drive system (1) and response system (2) is studied under Hypotheses (H1)–(H4). The robust adaptive feedback controller is designed as

where is the feedback gain matrix to be scheduled; and are the estimation of the bounds and , respectively. The update laws and are designed as

with , .

Theorem 7. Assume that Hypotheses (H1)–(H4) hold. If there exist an feedback gain matrix , two symmetric matrices and , and four positive constants , , , and , such that the following conditions hold:

(C1);(C2)

 where

 then the drive system (1) and response system (2) can be exponentially synchronized in mean square.

Proof. Construct a Lyapunov functional in the form of

where .

From Definition 3, we obtain the operator

It is clear from Lemma 6 that

From Hypothesis (H3), we have

Substituting (14) and (15), (20) and (21) to (19), we obtain

where

Considering condition of Theorem 7 and Schur complement [37], we get

It follows from Itô’s formula that

which means that

By using Lemma 5, we have

where , .

On the other hand, we denote

Combining (27) and (28), we finally obtain

where

Therefore, by Definition 4 we see that the drive system (1) and response system (2) can be exponentially synchronized in mean square with a decay rate . The proof of Theorem 7 is completed.

Let ; the feedback gain matrix can be calculated by ; then, the following Theorem holds.

Theorem 8. Assume that Hypotheses (H1)–(H4) hold. If there exist an matrix , two symmetric matrices and , and four positive constants , , , and , such that the following conditions hold

;

 where

 then the drive system (1) and response system (2) can be exponentially synchronized in mean square.

Substituting to Theorem 7, the above result is easy to be obtained. So the proof of Theorem 8 is omitted.

Remark 9. Our method does not need to construct a complex Lyapunov-Krasovskii function which contains quadratic integral terms and triple integral terms. Thus, the amount of calculation is greatly reduced. Furthermore, we do not require that the matrix is diagonal (see [8, 9, 30]) just only being symmetric. This partly shows the less conservativeness of our control strategy. If the drive system (1) and response system (2) have no nonidentical parametric uncertainties, the corresponding synchronization problems have been addressed in [8, 9, 29, 30]. Therefore, our results are more general than those given in [8, 9, 29, 30].

By constructing another Lyapunov functional , we can derive the following corollaries by Theorem 7 and Theorem 8, respectively.

Corollary 10. Assume that Hypotheses (H1)–(H4) hold, and the feedback controller is designed as . If there exist an feedback gain matrix , two symmetric matrices and , and four positive constants , , , and , such that the following conditions hold

;

 where

 then the drive system (1) and response system (2) can be exponentially synchronized in mean square.

Corollary 11. Assume that Hypotheses (H1)–(H4) hold, and the feedback controller is designed as . If there exist an matrix , two symmetric matrices and , and four positive constants , , , and , such that the following conditions hold

;

 where

 then the drive system (1) and response system (2) can be exponentially synchronized in mean square.

The proof of Corollaries 10 and 11 is direct, so it is omitted.

Remark 12. Suppose response system (2) without noise perturbation; then, the synchronization issue of the drive system (1) and response system (2) converted to the synchronization of chaotic delayed neural networks with parametric uncertainties, which has been investigated in [11, 23]. In addition, the authors in [33] only studied the time invariance parametric uncertainties. Subsequently, our method has a wider application range than those results in [11, 23, 33].

4. Numerical Results

In this section, a numerical example and its simulations are presented to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed scheme in the previous sections. Throughout the simulations, we use the Euler-Maruyama method [38] with step .

Example 13. Consider two-dimensional chaotic delayed neural networks [39] as the drive system:

where the initial condition , , and ; then, from Hypothesis (H1) and Remark 1, it is easy to verify that , , and . The parameter matrices , , and and the parametric uncertainties are given as follows:

that is,

The corresponding response system is taken as

where the initial condition , , the noise perturbation

and is a 2-dimensional Brownian motion satisfying and ; then, from Hypothesis (H2), it is easy to get and . And the parametric uncertainties are given as

that is,

The robust adaptive feedback controller satisfies (14). The update laws and are designed as (15).

By using MATLAB LMI toolbox, we can obtain the following feasible solutions to LMIs in Theorem 8:

Thus, we can calculate the feedback gain matrix and the decay rate, which are given as follows:

We choose , , , and . Figures 1(a)–1(d) show the time response of state variables and the phase plots of systems (37) and (40) without the robust adaptive feedback controller designed in (14). Figures 2(a)–2(d) depict the time response of state variables, the synchronization errors, and the phase plots of systems (37) and (40) with the robust adaptive feedback controller designed in (14), from which we can see that the drive system (37) and response system (40) can be exponentially synchronized in mean square. Figures 3(a) and 3(b) display the estimated parameters and converge asymptotically to some constants, which show the effectiveness of the proposed robust adaptive synchronization scheme.

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(b)

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Figure 1: Time response of state variables and the phase plots of systems (37) and (40) without the robust adaptive feedback controller .

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Figure 2: Time response of state variables, the synchronization errors, and the phase plots of systems (37) and (40) with the robust adaptive feedback controller .

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Figure 3: The curves of the estimated parameters and .

Remark 14. The simulation results in Example 13 show that the effect of the nonidentical parametric uncertainties between the drive system (37) and response system (40) can be suppressed rapidly via the designed robust adaptive feedback controller, which means that the proposed strategy has strong robustness against the nonidentical parametric uncertainties. Meanwhile, we have a relatively large decay rate .

Remark 15. Synchronization is encountered in various fields of science, in engineering and in social behavior [40, 41]. In fact, synchronization problem of networks system belongs to the category of control, which is an important branch of synthetic theory in model control field. The authors in [42] dealt with the synchronization problem of coupled switched neural networks with mode-dependent impulsive effects and time delays by using switching analysis techniques and a comparison principle. Zhang et al. in [43] have investigated the synchronization problem for a class of nonlinear delayed dynamical networks with heterogeneous impulsive effects. The distributed synchronization problem in networks of agent systems with controllers and nonlinearities subject to Bernoulli switchings has been studied in [44], in which the advantage of distributed adaptive controllers over conventional adaptive controllers has also been validated. The abovementioned literature is interesting synthesis problems of networks and will become our future investigative directions.

5. Conclusion

In this paper, we have studied robust exponential adaptive synchronization of stochastic perturbed chaotic delayed neural networks with nonidentical parametric uncertainties. A robust adaptive feedback controller has been designed to equalize the effect of the nonidentical parametric uncertainties. A numerical example has also been exploited to depict the usefulness of the obtained results. The nonidentical parametric uncertainties, which have been taken into account, exhibited the main advantage of the proposed scheme. The simulation results confirmed that our method has a high robustness property against parameter uncertainties mismatch.

Conflict of Interests

The authors declare that there is no conflict of interests regarding the publication of this paper.

Acknowledgments

The authors would like to thank the editor and the anonymous reviewers for their careful comments and suggestions to improve the quality of the paper. This work is jointly supported by Opening Fund of Geomathematics Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province under Grant sc-sxdz2011010 and the scientific research Fund of Sichuan University of Science and Engineering under Grant 2011PY08.

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