Mathematical Problems in Engineering

Volume 2013 (2013), Article ID 859304, 5 pages

http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/859304

Research Article

Parameter Identification and Synchronization of Uncertain Chaotic Systems Based on Sliding Mode Observer

Li-lian Huang and Lei Lin

Harbin Engineering University, Harbin, Heilongjiang 150001, China

Received 25 July 2013; Accepted 6 September 2013

Academic Editor: Guanghui Sun

Copyright © 2013 Li-lian Huang and Lei Lin. 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.

The synchronization of nonlinear uncertain chaotic systems is investigated. We propose a sliding mode state observer scheme which combines the sliding mode control with observer theory and apply it into the uncertain chaotic system with unknown parameters and bounded interference. Based on Lyapunov stability theory, the constraints of synchronization and proof are given. This method not only can realize the synchronization of chaotic systems, but also identify the unknown parameters and obtain the correct parameter estimation. Otherwise, the synchronization of chaotic systems with unknown parameters and bounded external disturbances is robust by the design of the sliding surface. Finally, numerical simulations on Liu chaotic system with unknown parameters and disturbances are carried out. Simulation results show that this synchronization and parameter identification has been totally achieved and the effectiveness is verified very well.

1. Introduction

Chaos has the class-random characteristics, so it has the great application prospects in the secure communications. There has been significant interest in using chaotic dynamics to realize secure communications and cryptography during the last two decades. Since Carroll and Pecora [1] and Liv et al. [2] first put forward and achieved the synchronization of drive-response chaotic systems, more and more people have aroused a great enthusiasm in the chaotic synchronization research [3–9]. In recent years people have proposed many synchronization methods of chaotic systems such as linear and nonlinear feedback control [10], delayed feedback control [11], adaptive synchronization control [12], neural network control [13], pulse control [14], and sliding mode variable structure control [15–17]. Xiu-chun et al. [18] do the research based on drive system with unknown parameters or external disturbances but do not take into account the robustness issues of the system. Therefore, regarding how to control effectively and achieve synchronization of chaotic systems with unknown parameters or interference has more practical significance.

Most of the work in this area focused on synchronization of chaotic systems to recover information signals [19–21]. Gao et al. [22] proposed a method to achieve the generalized synchronization based on state observer and pole placement. Liu et al. [23] achieved synchronization for a class of chaotic systems by nonlinear observer. Hua et al. [24] designed adaptive observer to achieve system synchronization by assuming the system parameters are given. However, not all the states of nonlinear systems can be realized. In this case, state observer can be used for observing the state to obtain the actual values and apply them to control the system. So a full-state feedback observation has been applied widely in modern control. Based on the state observer, synchronization of chaotic systems can be achieved too.

Sliding mode variable structure control [25–28] has a history of more than 50 years and it is a special nonlinear control. Its structure is not fixed and can change with a dynamic process according to the current state of the system. It is widely applied in linear and nonlinear system, continuous and discrete system, certainty and uncertainty system, and so forth and gradually extended to practical engineering applications. Since the sliding mode can be designed and has robustness for parameters and disturbances, which makes variable structure have fast response, be insensitive to parameter variations and disturbances, not need online identification for a system and have simple physical implementation. So the sliding mode variable structure control attracts the attention widely.

In this paper, based on sliding mode variable structure control theory and observer, a sliding mode variable structure observer is obtained to achieve the synchronization of uncertain chaotic systems with unknown parameters and external disturbances. According to the Lyapunov stability theory, the condition of synchronization and proof is presented. We point out the capability of the sliding mode observer to handle disturbances, as these have shown to be a challenge for other observers. It also has stronger robustness for chaotic systems and could accurately identify the unknown parameters with external disturbances. The observer has fewer constraints and wide application, which is suitable for most common chaotic systems. Finally, numerical simulation by Liu chaotic system verifies the effectiveness of this method.

2. System Model and Observer Design

2.1. Chaotic System Model

Consider the following nonlinear chaotic system model:

where are the state variable and output of the system, , , and () are known constant matrixes, and is observable. are the nonlinear parts; they satisfy the conditions of Lipschitz. is the unknown parameter vector and , is the disturbance and , where is a positive constant. The expression (1) represents most common model of the chaotic systems. When , formula (1) represents a class of chaotic systems with known parameters. Liu et al. chaotic system [29], Chen chaotic system, and Lorenz chaotic system can be the form of the above model.

We make the following assumptions.

(A1) is observable so there is an observer gain such that is strictly Hurwitz matrix.(A2) The known nonlinearity satisfies

 where are Lipschitz constants.(A3) There is ; it makes hold.(A4) There are positive definite matrixes , which satisfy the Lyapunov equation .

2.2. Observer Design

Based on the previous assumptions, for the drive system (1) the design of sliding mode observer is as follows:

is the state variable of the observer. is output of the observer. is the estimation of parameter . is the observer gain matrix. is the nonlinear input.

The state error vector is between drive system (1) and response system (3), so the error system equation can be obtained as follows:

The goal of the design is for a class of chaotic systems (1) with unknown parameters and external disturbance, we search the right gain matrix and nonlinear input and design the observer by sliding mode variable structure control theory to achieve the synchronization of chaotic systems.

If the error states in system (4) converge to the origin asymptotically or in a limited time, the synchronization of the response system (3) and drive system (1) is achieved.

In order to design the sliding mode variable structure observer (3), the sliding mode surface is designed as the form and nonlinear input is defined as (5) in discrete item.

Theorem 1. Considering the system (1) and (3), under the condition of satisfying the assumptions 1–4, nonlinear input (5) is chosen and it satisfies

the parameter update rules are chosen as

There must be and for any initial conditions, namely, the system (1) and (3) realized the chaos synchronization and parameter estimation.

Proof. Define the parameter error vector , and select Lyapunov function as follows,

Then its derivative is

According Theorem 1 and the definition of the nonlinear input , we get

where and are the maximum and minimum eigenvalues of the matrix .

According to Lyapunov stability theory, the original Lyapunov function is positive and its first derivative is negative , then the error system converges to zero. So the expression (1) and (3) achieve synchronization finally.

Remark 2. In the design of the observer, it is very important that the assumption 4 is satisfied or not. When the matrix satisfies the assumption 4, the sufficient condition is: The transfer function which contains gain matrix is strictly positive.

Remark 3. Discontinuous switch can make the observer error produce a sliding motion and also the observer has the robustness for the unknown input disturbances. However this discontinuous switch will cause some shocks. In order to eliminate this shake which is caused by high frequency interference, can be substituted by , where is a small scalar quantity.

3. Simulation Example

In order to verify the correctness of the above method, Liu chaotic system is an example to simulate. In this paper, we study the Liu which is a typical chaotic system with characteristics of chaos and its expression is

are the system parameters. When , and , the Lyapunov exponents of Liu system are , and . Therefore, under certain initial conditions Liu system is in a chaotic state and presents a rich and complex behavior of chaotic dynamics.

Assume that the parameters of Liu chaotic system are unknown, so the Liu chaotic system with unknown parameters and disturbance is described as follows:

where is the state variable, is the output, , , parameter vector is , . It is easy to verify that can be observable.

Equation (12) is the drive system and the observer is designed:

In simulation, the initial value of Liu drive system and its observer are chosen as ,and . The initial value of the unknown parameters are chosen as . The disturbance is . The constant parameters are chosen as , and . Select the observer gain matrix , so that the eigenvalues of are , and , respectively. The parameter vector updates as . Choose positive definite symmetric matrix , , , and . The time step is . The above parameters and the matrixes are applied to the observer of the Liu system. We can obtain Figures 1 and 2. Figure 1 is the graph of the error state. From the figure we can see that by adding the observer when the error system quickly converges to zero and achieves the synchronization. Figure 2 is the graph of the parameter identification. From the figure we can obtain that the parameters of system approaches the true value. The simulation results verify the effectiveness of the method.

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Figure 1: Graph of error state .

Figure 2: Graph of parameter identification.

4. Conclusions

The state observer based on sliding mode control is proposed to synchronize a class of chaotic systems with uncertain parameters and external disturbance and identification method for unknown parameter is given. Nonlinear parts satisfy the Lipschitz condition and external disturbance is bounded in this uncertain nonlinear system which is discussed. Depending on characteristics of the system, four assumptions are given. In the condition of satisfying the assumptions, a sliding mode observer is designed by combining sliding mode variable structure control and observer methods, and the synchronization of chaotic systems is realized finally. By means of Lyapunov stability theory, the conditions to realize the synchronization of the disturbed chaotic system with uncertain parameters is given and the correctness of the observer is verified. The numerical simulations by Liu chaotic system show that the designed sliding mode observer can still effectively realize the observation of the state variables and identification of the unknown parameters. Simulation results verify the effectiveness of the proposed methods. The observer has stronger robustness to chaotic systems with unknown parameters or external disturbance and has fewer constraints and wide application, which is suitable for most common chaotic systems.

Acknowledgments

This research is supported by the Chinese National Natural Science Foundation (no. 60772025) and the National Natural Science Foundation of Heilongjiang province (Grant no. F201220).

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