Adaptive mechanism for synchronization of chaotic oscillators with interval time-delays

This paper addresses the adaptive feedback controller design for the synchronization of chaotic systems with interval time-delays in their state vectors by exploiting a lower and an upper bound on time-delays. Simple control and adaptation laws are developed for chaos synchronization, and linear matrix inequalities (LMIs) are derived to ensure asymptotic convergence of the synchronization error between the master–slave systems, using the proposed feedback control strategy, by employing a novel treatment of Lyapunov–Krasovskii functional. Further, the proposed strategy is strengthened by exploiting L₂ L₂ stability against disturbances and perturbations and corresponding LMIs for robust adaptive controller synthesis are derived. Furthermore, a novel delay-range-dependent robust adaptive synchronization control approach for dealing with locally Lipschitz non-delayed and delayed nonlinearities in the dynamics of chaotic oscillators is provided by employing an additional adaptation law for the nonlinearities. A numerical simulation example is provided to illustrate effectiveness of the proposed synchronization approach.