LOCAL AND GLOBAL EXPONENTIAL SYNCHRONIZATION IN UNCERTAIN COMPLEX DYNAMICAL NETWORKS

This paper studies the local and global exponential synchronization of uncertain complex dynamical networks. The network model considered is general complex dynamical networks with unknown network structure and unknown coupling functions but bounded. Novel linear controllers are designed via the Lyapunov stability theory. Especially, it is shown that the controlled networks are exponentially synchronized with a given convergence rate. The designed linear controllers for network synchronization are rather simple. It is very useful for future practical engineering design. Moreover numerical simulation results showed the effectiveness of proposed synchronization approaches.