New results on synchronization of chaotic systems with time-varying delays via intermittent control

Abstract

This paper is concerned with the problem of exponential synchronization for chaotic systems with time-varying delays by using periodically intermittent control. Some new and useful synchronization criteria are obtained based on the differential inequality method and the analysis technique. It is noteworthy that the methods used in this paper are different from the techniques employed in the existing works, and the derived conditions are less conservative. Especially, a strong constraint on the control width that the control width should be large than the time delay imposed by the current references is released in this paper. Moreover, the new synchronization criteria do not impose any restriction on the size of time delay. Numerical examples are finally presented to illustrate the effectiveness of the theoretical results.