<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><!DOCTYPE article  PUBLIC "-//NLM//DTD Journal Publishing DTD v3.0 20080202//EN" "http://dtd.nlm.nih.gov/publishing/3.0/journalpublishing3.dtd"><article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" dtd-version="3.0" xml:lang="en" article-type="research article"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">AM</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>Applied Mathematics</journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="epub">2152-7385</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Scientific Research Publishing</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.4236/am.2012.36083</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">AM-20087</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Articles</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="Discipline-v2"><subject>Physics&amp;Mathematics</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>
 
 
  Adaptive Lag Synchronization of Lorenz Chaotic System with Uncertain Parameters
 
</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>anfei</surname><given-names>Chen</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"><sup>1</sup></xref><xref ref-type="corresp" rid="cor1"><sup>*</sup></xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Zhen</surname><given-names>Jia</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"><sup>1</sup></xref><xref ref-type="corresp" rid="cor1"><sup>*</sup></xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Guangming</surname><given-names>Deng</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"><sup>1</sup></xref><xref ref-type="corresp" rid="cor1"><sup>*</sup></xref></contrib></contrib-group><aff id="aff1"><addr-line>College of Science, Guilin University of Technology, Guilin, China</addr-line></aff><author-notes><corresp id="cor1">* E-mail:<email>chenyanfei2010@126.com(AC)</email>;<email>jjjzzz0@163.com(ZJ)</email>;<email>dgm@glite.edu.cn(GD)</email>;</corresp></author-notes><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>21</day><month>06</month><year>2012</year></pub-date><volume>03</volume><issue>06</issue><fpage>549</fpage><lpage>553</lpage><history><date date-type="received"><day>March</day>	<month>22,</month>	<year>2012</year></date><date date-type="rev-recd"><day>April</day>	<month>19,</month>	<year>2012</year>	</date><date date-type="accepted"><day>April</day>	<month>22,</month>	<year>2012</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement>&#169; Copyright  2014 by authors and Scientific Research Publishing Inc. </copyright-statement><copyright-year>2014</copyright-year><license><license-p>This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution International License (CC BY). http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</license-p></license></permissions><abstract><p>
 
 
  The paper discusses lag synchronization of Lorenz chaotic system with three uncertain parameters. Based on adaptive technique, the lag synchronization of Lorenz chaotic system is achieved by designing a novel nonlinear controller. Furthermore, the parameters identification is realized simultaneously. A sufficient condition is given and proved theoreticcally by Lyapunov stability theory and LaSalle’s invariance principle. Finally, the numerical simulations are provided to show the effectiveness and feasibility of the proposed method.
 
</p></abstract><kwd-group><kwd>Lag Synchronization; Adaptive Technique; Uncertain Parameters; Lorenz Chaotic System</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front><body><sec id="s1"><title>1. Introduction</title><p>Since the original work on chaos synchronization by Pecora and Carroll [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.20087-ref1">1</xref>] in the drive-response systems, chaos synchronization has attracted much attraction due to its potential applications in many practical engineering fields, such as secure communication [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.20087-ref2">2</xref>], information processing [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.20087-ref3">3</xref>], image encryption [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.20087-ref4">4</xref>], and so on. In the past two decades, many schemes for chaos synchronization have been proposed, including linear and nonlinear feedback approach [5,6], adaptive technique [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.20087-ref6">6</xref>], backstepping method [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.20087-ref7">7</xref>], impulsive control method [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.20087-ref8">8</xref>], etc. At present, the researchers are concentrating on the following types of synchronization phenomena: complete synchronization [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.20087-ref9">9</xref>], generalized synchronization [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.20087-ref10">10</xref>], phase synchronization [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.20087-ref11">11</xref>], lag synchronization [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.20087-ref12">12</xref>], dislocated synchronization [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.20087-ref13">13</xref>] and so on.</p><p>Lag synchronization, where the corresponding state vectors of response system follow the drive system with time delay. Recently, some literatures have been devoted to lag synchronization of chaotic systems. In Reference [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.20087-ref14">14</xref>], the lag synchronization of R&#246;ssler system and Chua circuit has been investigated via a scalar signal. Li et al. [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.20087-ref15">15</xref>] applied a nonlinear observer to lag synchronization of hyperchaotic R&#246;ssler system and hyperchaotic Matsumoto-Chua-Kobayashi (MCK) circuit. Zhang et al. [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.20087-ref16">16</xref>] studied the same problem for hyperchaotic L&#252; system. These design of a controller depends on the considered dynamical system, the method can be used in the system with certain parameters. But in some real physical systems and experimental situations, chaotic systems may have some uncertain parameters, so a systematic design process of lag synchronization of chaotic systems with uncertain parameters is important.</p><p>In this paper, we investigate the lag synchronization of Lorenz chaotic system with uncertain parameters. Based on the adaptive technique, a novel controller and parameter adaptive laws are designed such that parameters identification is realized, and lag synchronization of Lorenz chaotic system is achieved simultaneously. Theoretically proof and numerical simulations are given to demonstrate the effectiveness and feasibility of the proposed method. &#160;</p></sec><sec id="s2"><title>2. Problem Formulation</title><p>The Lorenz chaotic system [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.20087-ref17">17</xref>] is proposed in 1963, the nonlinear differential equations for describing it are</p><disp-formula id="scirp.20087-formula144395"><label>(1)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="8-7400782\9e10a498-48a4-4a51-9ae1-9a94e2878e35.jpg"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>having a chaotic attractor when<img src="8-7400782\80acf1e4-5354-43be-8891-82e02dbf80cf.jpg" />, <img src="8-7400782\f0bd0a97-79e3-474c-90b7-393f115e06a5.jpg" />,<img src="8-7400782\8c0c970c-2316-4d6c-8e14-7f23183dbed3.jpg" />. The phase portrait is shown in <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig1">Figure 1</xref>.</p><p>Considering the drive system (1), the response system is controlled Lorenz chaotic system as following</p><disp-formula id="scirp.20087-formula144396"><label>(2)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="8-7400782\3c435a52-e68d-4d8d-bbf2-83d29f788384.jpg"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>where a<sub>s</sub>, b<sub>s</sub>, c<sub>s</sub> of (2) are unknown parameters which need to be identified in the response system, &#160;</p><p><img src="8-7400782\c9cc61a2-5206-468e-9873-cfa4db8634f6.jpg" /></p><p>is the controller which should be designed such that two systems can be lag synchronized. &#160;</p><p>Let</p><disp-formula id="scirp.20087-formula144397"><label>(3)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="8-7400782\53479899-dfa6-4bee-b28d-0a17e59d44c7.jpg"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>where <img src="8-7400782\9084e480-eb59-4303-a33c-7e2ecd6cfc09.jpg" /> is the time delay for the errors dynamical system.</p><p>Therefore, the goal of parameters identification and lag synchronization is to find an appropriate controller <img src="8-7400782\99d793df-9923-4132-ac39-9fe10a1c31f0.jpg" /> and parameter adaptive laws of a<sub>s</sub>, b<sub>s</sub>, c<sub>s</sub>, such that the synchronization errors</p><p><img src="8-7400782\4b6392d4-95d7-46b8-9f20-34ca9b72632d.jpg" />as <img src="8-7400782\ae486874-4627-4263-90cf-eda0e97a13a0.jpg" />(4)</p><p>and the unknown parameters</p><disp-formula id="scirp.20087-formula144398"><label>(5)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="8-7400782\28c63c92-541b-40c1-94d1-02d4b3767a90.jpg"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Remark 1. When<img src="8-7400782\d469f96b-f376-45e0-93f4-37437e4fbab0.jpg" />, the lag synchronization will appear. When<img src="8-7400782\b7466afc-2ee1-47bd-8c25-f70fb34160c4.jpg" />, the anticipated synchronization will appear. More in general, complete synchronization will appear when<img src="8-7400782\4d5da78c-c9da-4caa-b6d6-f1a4408ac381.jpg" />.</p><p>Remark 2. For the anticipated synchronization and complete synchronization, the discussions are similar to the method given in this paper.</p></sec><sec id="s3"><title>3. Adaptive Lag Synchronization of Lorenz Chaotic System</title><p>In this section, based upon the nonlinear adaptive feedback control technique, a systematic design process of parameters identification and lag synchronization of Lorenz chaotic system under the situation of response system with unknown parameters is provided.</p><p>According to the systems (1) and (2), we have the errors dynamical system</p><disp-formula id="scirp.20087-formula144399"><label>(6)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="8-7400782\001986aa-26d5-4d1f-a60c-ee8c70833dae.jpg"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Obviously, lag synchronization of systems (1) and (2) appears if the errors dynamical system (6) has an asymptotically stable equilibrium point<img src="8-7400782\a33df1d1-2dee-4ca1-bb99-66bfa3d97273.jpg" />, where &#160;</p><p><img src="8-7400782\c407b6ce-a8f6-4f5b-917d-1b53e20991d3.jpg" />.</p><p>Then, we get the following theorem.</p><p>Theorem Assuming that the Lorenz chaotic system (1) drives the controlled Lorenz chaotic system (2), take</p><disp-formula id="scirp.20087-formula144400"><label>(7)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="8-7400782\efb515f0-6add-453b-a63f-ad082ea033d0.jpg"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>and parameter adaptive laws</p><disp-formula id="scirp.20087-formula144401"><label>(8)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="8-7400782\52918a5e-28d5-438e-9f96-a30420fa328c.jpg"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Systems (1) and (2) can realize lag synchronization and the unknown parameters will be identified, i.e., Equations (4) and (5) will be achieved.</p><p>Proof Equation (6) can be converted to the following form under the controller (7)</p><disp-formula id="scirp.20087-formula144402"><label>(9)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="8-7400782\b7fbba3a-bdc2-411c-8aa9-b4bd45e66dc1.jpg"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Consider a Lyapunov function as</p><p><img src="8-7400782\2b970fb5-2a7f-4cf8-82e8-51a39b47df46.jpg" /></p><p>Obviously, V is a positive definite function. Taking its time derivative along with the trajectories of Equations (8) and (9) leads to</p><p><img src="8-7400782\904ec72d-d644-4237-9986-be6169a2ee7d.jpg" /></p><p>where<img src="8-7400782\d1277d39-5b7d-49da-829f-e216cc81f115.jpg" />. It is obvious that <img src="8-7400782\ed4fdef6-d6e3-440c-867e-f4266331772e.jpg" /> if and only if<img src="8-7400782\b251346e-e734-48f4-9cbc-904118045cc9.jpg" />, <img src="8-7400782\ed1f5522-ec5f-4127-a86c-950c4c7be821.jpg" />, namely the set</p><p><img src="8-7400782\a8db6967-2de7-408a-b08c-f84f404c83e6.jpg" /></p><p>is the largest invariant set contained in <img src="8-7400782\a66eb823-ed6b-4693-b13b-3b9ab08edd64.jpg" /> for Equation (9). So according to the LaSalle’s invariance principle [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.20087-ref18">18</xref>], starting with arbitrary initial values of Equation (9), the trajectory converges asymptotically to the set M, i.e., <img src="8-7400782\0fe20244-d55e-4a97-9331-b72f72bbf051.jpg" />, <img src="8-7400782\e6fbafea-7db9-407a-86a5-5f2f2dcb718a.jpg" />, <img src="8-7400782\81dea0d5-9faa-4e34-82a6-2e6d0b16345a.jpg" />, <img src="8-7400782\c1554248-f2a0-4c92-b9d6-b2cb908b6b40.jpg" />, <img src="8-7400782\e36c0150-7878-4f59-9bd9-375c4e919ffa.jpg" />and <img src="8-7400782\64c71555-ed73-4e63-8416-e3995a5775ce.jpg" /> as<img src="8-7400782\f6743a8f-da96-40b0-b4aa-fe6f6500f95d.jpg" />. This indicates that the lag synchronization of Lorenz chaotic system is achieved and the unknown parameters a<sub>s</sub>, b<sub>s</sub>, c<sub>s</sub>, can be successfully identified by using controller (7) and parameter adaptive laws (8). Now the proof is completed.</p><p>Remark 3. Taking our adaptive synchronization method, we can not only achieve synchronization but also identify the system parameters. The values for parameters a, b, c of drive system (1) should be confined to it has a chaotic attractor.</p><p>Remark 4. Although this process is focused on the Lorenz chaotic system, the systematic design process could be used for many other complex dynamical systems with uncertain parameters.</p></sec><sec id="s4"><title>4. Numerical Simulations</title><p>In order to verify the effectiveness and feasibility of the proposed method, we give some numerical simulations about the lag synchronization and parameters identification between systems (1) and (2). In the numerical simulations, all the differential equations are solved by using the fourth-order Runge-Kutta method.</p><p>For this numerical simulations, we assume that the initial states of drive system and response system are<img src="8-7400782\c93ff582-8378-46f5-8036-9b63368715cf.jpg" />, <img src="8-7400782\28e22bc9-4bc6-41ba-a6cb-8851933f85c4.jpg" />, <img src="8-7400782\a40a913e-a939-4208-abf6-579288a5669e.jpg" />and<img src="8-7400782\4335ba22-0f1e-4114-a85f-f98bdd0b67b7.jpg" />, <img src="8-7400782\1d8e6a03-920a-420a-9f04-7f623aaba815.jpg" />, <img src="8-7400782\d7599808-e1e1-44e2-a60d-1377ccbcf7bd.jpg" />and the unknown parameters have zero initial condition, the time delay is chosen as<img src="8-7400782\f9652846-d971-4c79-a09f-9ca592554083.jpg" />. The drive signals are from the Lorenz chaotic system (1) with system parameters<img src="8-7400782\035e45e1-a23f-4591-a26d-d3e3b122f814.jpg" />, <img src="8-7400782\58ead34c-60f4-47cc-b017-e8d2cec3675e.jpg" />, <img src="8-7400782\39fa0a23-abc3-46ed-9097-7bd680b64955.jpg" />so that it exhibits a chaotic attractor. The simulation results are shown in Figures 2-4. Figures 2 and 3 display the lag synchronization state variables and errors response of systems (1) and (2), respectively. <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig4">Figure 4</xref> shows the identification results of unknown parameters a<sub>s</sub>, b<sub>s</sub>, c<sub>s</sub>.</p></sec><sec id="s5"><title>5. Conclusion</title><p>This paper investigates the adaptive lag synchronization for the classical Lorenz chaotic system with the response system parameters unknown. 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