LMI criteria for robust chaos synchronization of a class of chaotic systems

Based on the Lyapunov stability theory and LMI technique, a new sufficient criterion, formulated in the LMI form, is established in this paper for chaos robust synchronization by linear-state-feedback approach for a class of uncertain chaotic systems with different parameters perturbation and different external disturbances on both master system and slave system. The new sufficient criterion can guarantee that the slave system will robustly synchronize to the master system at an exponential convergence rate. Meanwhile, we also provide a criterion to find out proper feedback gain matrix K that is still a pending problem in literature [H. Zhang, X.K. Ma, Synchronization of uncertain chaotic systems with parameters perturbation via active control, Chaos, Solitons and Fractals 21 (2004) 39-47]. Finally, the effectiveness of the two criteria proposed herein is verified and illustrated by the chaotic Murali-Lakshmanan-Chua system and Lorenz systems, respectively. (c) 2006 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.