Abstract and Applied Analysis

Volume 2013 (2013), Article ID 948782, 7 pages

http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/948782

Research Article

Synchronization of Fractional-Order Chaotic Systems with Gaussian Fluctuation by Sliding Mode Control

Yong Xu and Hua Wang

Department of Applied Mathematics, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an 710072, China

Received 4 September 2013; Accepted 23 October 2013

Academic Editor: Jinhu Lü

Copyright © 2013 Yong Xu and Hua Wang. 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.

Chaotic systems are always influenced by some uncertainties and external disturbances. This paper investigates the problem of practical synchronization of fractional-order chaotic systems with Gaussian fluctuation. A fractional integral (FI) sliding surface is proposed for synchronizing the uncertain fractional-order system, and then the sliding mode control technique is carried out to realize the synchronization of the given systems. One theorem about sliding mode controller is presented to prove that the proposed controller can make the system achieve synchronization. As a case study, the presented method is applied to the fractional-order Chen-Lü system, and simulation results show that the proposed control approach is capable to go against Gaussian noise well.

1. Introduction

Synchronization, which means “things occur at the same time or operate in unison,” has received a great deal of interest among scientists from various fields in the last few years, especially in fractional-order chaotic systems [1–4]. It has been recognized that many systems in interdisciplinary fields can be elegantly described by fractional-order differential equations, such as viscoelastic materials [5], electrical circuits [6], population models [7], and financial systems [8]. Meanwhile, most of precious studies have shown that some fractional-order systems exhibit chaotic behavior [9–14]. In particular, fractional-order chaotic behavior has wide promising applications in information encryption, image processing, secure communication, and so forth [15–18]. Therefore, synchronization of fractional chaotic systems starts to attract increasing attentions because it has a wide range of applications like the traditional (integer order) chaotic synchronization, which has been used in secure communication [19], complex dynamical network [20], and so on.

A basic configuration for chaos synchronization is the drive-response pattern, where the response of chaotic system must track the drive chaotic trajectory. Some approaches based on this configuration have been attained to achieve chaos synchronization in fractional-order chaotic systems, such as Pecora and Carroll (PC) control [21], active control [22], adaptive control [23, 24], sliding mode control (SMC) [25], and a scalar transmitted signal method [26], in which the sliding mode controller has some attractive advantages, including: (i) fast dynamic responses and good transient performance; (ii) external disturbance rejection; and (iii) insensitivity to parameter variations and model uncertainties [27, 28]. In addition, SMC method plays an important role in the application to practical problems. For example, in [29], Tavazoei and Haeri proposed a controller based on active sliding mode theory to synchronize fractional-order chaotic systems in master-slave structure. In [2], the problem of modified projective synchronization of fractional-order chaotic system was considered, and finite-time synchronization of nonautonomous fractional-order uncertain chaotic systems was investigated in [30].

All of the methods mentioned above have been used to synchronize the deterministic fractional-order chaotic systems. However, noise-induced synchronization in chaotic systems is a practical phenomenon due to the fact that noises are ubiquitous in natural and synthetic systems, and up till now, it has been studied by many investigators from different areas [31–34]. What is more is that chaotic systems with fractional-order model influenced by random noise will be more challenging and difficult. In this investigation, our aim is to synchronize two fractional-order chaotic systems with uncertain environment. To achieve this goal, we propose fractional integral (FI) sliding mode surface which combines the property of fractional-order equation with sliding mode control method. Theoretical analysis about sliding mode controller is presented via series expansion and properties of Gaussian distribution to prove that the proposed controller can make the system synchronize well. Then a numerical example is given to verify the effectiveness of the mentioned method, and the good agreements are also found between the theoretical and the numerical results.

This paper is organized as follows. In Section 2, fractional-order chaotic systems with random factors and problem formulation are presented. In Section 3, we investigate the design method of sliding mode controller, and one theorem is obtained to prove the effectiveness of proposed controller. One example is presented to carry out the numerical simulations in Section 4. Finally, conclusions are presented to end this paper.

2. System Description and Problem Formulation

Consider the following class of fractional-order chaotic system excited by Gaussian white noise, which is described by

where denotes the state vector, is a constant matrix, is nonlinear vector function, is noise intensity function which is sufficient smooth and bounded, that is, ( is a positive constant), and is -dimensional Brownian motion. Accordingly, is a -dimensional Gaussian white noise vector, in which every two noises are statistical independent. And . denotes the Caputo derivative, which is defined as

with the Euler’s Gamma function.

Let system (1) be the driving system; then response system with a controller is given by

where is state vector, is a coefficient matrix, and is vector function. Let be the error of systems (1) and (3). Then, from system (1) and (3), one has the error dynamics:

where .

Thus, the control problem considered in this study is that, for chaotic driving system (1) and response system (3), they are to be synchronized by designing an appropriate controller satisfying

where is defined as and   is the expected value function.

3. Sliding Mode Controller Design and Analysis

In the following context, we will design sliding mode controller to establish synchronization between driving system (1) and response system (3).

3.1. Sliding Mode Controller Design Process

Now, the control input vector is defined to eliminate the nonlinear part of the error dynamics:

where , is a constant gain matrix, and is the control input that satisfies

in which is a switching surface to prescribe the desired sliding mode dynamics.

So the error system (4) is rewritten as

Here, a new fractional integral (FI) switching surface is given as follows:

where and should be stable; namely, the eigenvalues of matrix are negative .

As we all know, when the system is controllable in the sliding mode, the switching surface should satisfy the following conditions:

together with

Substituting (8) and (9) into (10b), one obtains

Therefore, the equivalent control law is obtained by

In real-world applications, the Gaussian white noise is uncertain. Therefore, the equivalent control input is modified to

To design the sliding mode controller, we consider the constant plus proportional rate reaching law [35, 36]; that, is

where , and are all positive numbers, and represents sign function; that is

So, we can get the controller

Further, according to the control law and the updated law, the controller is given by

And the error system can be rewritten in the following differential form:

3.2. Synchronization Analysis

Theorem 1. If the controller is selected as (17), with suitably selected and , then the synchronization of fractional-order chaotic systems between driving system (1) and response system (3) can be achieved (i.e., the synchronization error converges to zero in the mean square norm).

Proof. Consider a Lyapunov function constructed by the mean square norm of and its differential form [37]:

According to the definition of derivative, it is found that

While, from (11) and (16), one gets

Substituting (21) into (20) results in

Taking expectations to (22) and using the properties of Brownian motion, we have

Therefore

Equation (24) implies that as long as suitable and which satisfy is selected, namely, , according to Barbalat’ Lemma [38], system (1) and system (3) can achieve synchronization under the controller law in (17).

This completes the proof.

4. Simulation

In this part, to confirm the validity of proposed method, we numerically examine the synchronization between fractional-order Chen system [39] and fractional-order Lü system [40]. In the simulation, step-by-step method is performed to receive numerical solution, and the detailed descriptions of this algorithm are available in [41, 42].

Here, we assume that the Chen system drives the Lü system. Hence, the driving system (fractional-order Lü system) is described as

which can also be written as

in which,

It has been shown that the fractional-order Lü system can demonstrate chaotic behavior [24] when , , , and .

The response system (fractional-order Chen system) is given as follows:

which can be written in the following form:

where

in which system will exhibit chaotic behavior [24] when , , , and . According to (3), the response system with controller can be described as follows:

where is the control vector.

Now, we apply the proposed sliding control approach to finish synchronization between fractional-order Lü system driven by Gaussian white noise and fractional-order Chen system. Here, we define the error states as

and the sliding mode surface as

The control law is given by

In the numerical simulations, the initial conditions are set as , . The noise intensity matrices are presumably given in the form of . In fact, controller parameters can be chosen as , , and . The time step size is . Then the simulation results are summarized in Figures 1–4. The state trajectories of the system (26) and system (31) under the sliding mode control method are shown in Figure 1(a) (signals ), Figure 1(b) (signals ), and Figure 1(c) (signals ), respectively. Note that the driving system is shown by solid line whereas response system is shown by dashed line. As one can see, the designed controller is effectively capable achieving the synchronization of fractional-order Chen chaotic system; that is, the state variables follow the trail of well. Then the synchronization errors between the uncertain fractional-order chaotic Lü system and fractional-order chaotic Chen system are depicted in Figure 2(a) (signal ), and Figure 2(b) (signal ), Figure 2(c) (signal ). As it is expected, the synchronization errors (32) close to zero. Further, the expectation and variance of error vectors , and converge to zero, as displayed in Figures 3 and 4, which all indicate that the chaos synchronization between uncertain fractional-order chaotic Lü and Chen systems are indeed realized.

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Figure 1: (a) The state trajectories of the system (26) and system (31) with the sliding mode control method. (Signals ). (b) The state trajectories of the system (26) and system (31) with the sliding mode control method. (Signals ). (c) The state trajectories of the system (26) and system (31) with the sliding mode control method. (Signals ).

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Figure 2: (a) The time evolution of synchronization error of the drive system (26) and response system (31). (b) The time evolution of synchronization error of the drive system (26) and response system (31). (c) The time evolution of synchronization error of the drive system (26) and response system (31).

Figure 3: Mean value of synchronization errors between system (26) and system (31) using sliding mode method.

Figure 4: Variance of the state estimation errors of the system (26) and system (31) using the sliding mode method.

From the simulation results, it can be concluded that the obtained theoretic results are efficient and feasible for synchronizing fractional uncertain dynamical systems, and the proposed controller guarantees the convergence of the error system.

5. Conclusions

In this paper, we focus on the problem of synchronization between fractional-order chaotic systems with Gaussian fluctuation by the method of fractional-order sliding mode control. A fractional sliding surface is introduced, and the sliding mode controller is proposed for synchronization. Furthermore, convergence property has been analyzed for the error dynamics after adding proposed controllers. It has been shown that the fractional-order chaotic systems under uncertain environment can achieve synchronization by proper choice of control parameters ( and ). Finally, to further illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed controllers, one applies the presented algorithm to the fractional-order Chen and fractional-order Lü systems through numerical simulations. From the simulation results, it is obvious that a satisfying control performance can be achieved by using the proposed method.

Acknowledgments

This work was supported by the NSF of China (Grant nos. 11372247 and 11102157), Program for NCET, the Shaanxi Project for Young New Star in Science & Technology, NPU Foundation for Fundamental Research, and SRF for ROCS, SEM.

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