Induced synchronization of a mobile agent network by phase locking

Abstract

We investigate synchronization issues of a set of mobile agents in plane, where each agent carries an identical chaotic oscillator and interacts with its neighbors through a blinking coupling mechanism. We discuss the effect of blinking pattern on synchronization of the related network. In particular, we show that phase locking of the blinking behavior can dramatically enhance synchronizability of the mobile agent network, while the random blinking pattern works little. Also, we show that by assessing the convergence time, the mobile agent networks with different blinking periods and duty ratios share a common idle duration which is independent of both the blinking period and the corresponding duty ratio.