Delay-dependent synchronization for non-diffusively coupled time-varying complex dynamical networks

This paper investigates the delay-dependent synchronization schemes for the non-diffusively coupled time-varying complex dynamical networks. The outer coupling configuration matrix in our network model may be non-diffusive, time-varying, uncertain, asymmetric and irreducible. Different time-varying coupling delays for different nodes are also put into consideration in this paper. Besides, the nodes may have different state dimensions. Furthermore, only the common bound of the outer coupling coefficients (CBOCC) is used to design the synchronization controllers. If the CBOCC is known, our delay-dependent synchronization scheme can guarantee the network achieving exponential synchronization. And when the CBOCC is uncertain, the adaptive synchronization scheme, where only one adaptive law is needed, is proposed to guarantee the network realizing asymptotic synchronization. Simulation examples are provided to verify the effectiveness and feasibility of our theoretical results. (C) 2014 Published by Elsevier Inc.