Connection adaption for control of networked mobile chaotic agents

In this paper, we propose a strategy for the control of mobile chaotic oscillators by adaptively rewiring connections between nearby agents with local information. In contrast to the dominant adaptive control schemes where coupling strength is adjusted continuously according to the states of the osc...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Zhou, Jie, Zou, Yong, Guan, Shuguang, Liu, Zonghua, Xiao, Gaoxi, Boccaletti, S.
Other Authors: School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: 2018
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10356/89609
http://hdl.handle.net/10220/44992
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Summary:In this paper, we propose a strategy for the control of mobile chaotic oscillators by adaptively rewiring connections between nearby agents with local information. In contrast to the dominant adaptive control schemes where coupling strength is adjusted continuously according to the states of the oscillators, our method does not request adaption of coupling strength. As the resulting interaction structure generated by this proposed strategy is strongly related to unidirectional chains, by investigating synchronization property of unidirectional chains, we reveal that there exists a certain coupling range in which the agents could be controlled regardless of the length of the chain. This feature enables the adaptive strategy to control the mobile oscillators regardless of their moving speed. Compared with existing adaptive control strategies for networked mobile agents, our proposed strategy is simpler for implementation where the resulting interaction networks are kept unweighted at all time.