Standard adaptive control is the preferred approach for stabilization and synchronization of chaotic systems when the structure of such systems is a priori known but the parameters are unknown. However, in the presence of unmodeled dynamics and/or disturbance, this approach is not effective anymore due to the drift of the parameter estimations, which eventually causes the instability of the closed-loop system. In this paper, a robustifying term, which consists of a saturation function, is used to avoid this problem. The robustifying (...) term is added to the adaptive control law. Consequently, the learning law is also modified. The boundedness of the states and the parameter estimations is rigorously and thoroughly proven by means of Lyapunov like analysis based on Barbalat’s lemma. On these new conditions, the convergence to zero cannot be achieved due to the presence of unmodeled dynamics and/or disturbance. However, it is still possible to guarantee the asymptotic convergence to a bounded zone around zero. The width of this zone can be adjusted by the designer. The performance of this robust approach is verified by numerical simulations. Although, for simplicity, this strategy is only applied to the stabilization and synchronization of Zhang system, the procedure can easily be generalized to a broad class of chaotic systems. (shrink)

Based on the integer-order memristive system that can generate two-scroll, three-scroll, and four-scroll chaotic attractors, in this paper, we found other phenomena that two kinds of three-scroll chaotic attractors coexist in this system with different initial conditions. Furthermore, we proposed a coexisting fractional-order system based on the three-scroll chaotic attractors system, in which the three-scroll or four-scroll chaotic attractors emerged with different fractional-orders q. Meanwhile, with fractional-order q=0.965 and different initial conditions, coexistence of two kinds of three-scroll and four-scroll chaotic (...) attractors is found simultaneously. Finally, we discussed controlling chaos for the fractional-order memristive chaotic system. (shrink)

Fractional complex chaotic systems have attracted great interest recently. However, most of scholars adopted integer real chaotic system and fractional real and integer complex chaotic systems to improve the security of communication. In this paper, the advantages of fractional complex chaotic synchronization in secure communication are firstly demonstrated. To begin with, we propose the definition of fractional difference function synchronization according to difference function synchronization of integer complex chaotic systems. FDFS makes communication secure based on FCCS possible. Then we design (...) corresponding controller and present a general communication scheme based on FDFS. Finally, we respectively accomplish simulations which transmit analog signal, digital signal, voice signal, and image signal. Especially for image signal, we give a novel image cryptosystem based on FDFS. The results demonstrate the superiority and good performances of FDFS in secure communication. (shrink)