On chaos control and synchronization of the commensurate fractional order Liu system

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Abstract

In this work, we study chaos control and synchronization of the commensurate fractional order Liu system. Based on the stability theory of fractional order systems, the conditions of local stability of nonlinear three-dimensional commensurate fractional order systems are discussed. The existence and uniqueness of solutions for a class of commensurate fractional order Liu systems are investigated. We also obtain the necessary condition for the existence of chaotic attractors in the commensurate fractional order Liu system. The effect of fractional order on chaos control of this system is revealed by showing that the commensurate fractional order Liu system is controllable just in the fractional order case when using a specific choice of controllers. Moreover, we achieve chaos synchronization between the commensurate fractional order Liu system and its integer order counterpart via function projective synchronization. Numerical simulations are used to verify the analytical results.

Highlights

► We study the conditions of local stability of nonlinear fractional order system. ► Existence and uniqueness of solutions of the fractional Liu systems are discussed. ► We derive the necessary condition for the existence of chaos in this system. ► We show the effect of fractional order on the chaos control of this system. ► A function projective synchronization technique has been applied to the system.

Introduction

The story of fractional calculus was initiated 300 years ago. The concept of fractional calculus has tremendous potential to change the way we see, model, and control the nature around us. Denying fractional derivatives is like saying that zero, fractional, or irrational numbers do not exist. Facts show that many systems can be elegantly described with the help of fractional derivatives in interdisciplinary fields, for example, electromagnetic waves [1], visco-elastic systems [2], diffusion waves [3] and nonlinear oscillation of earthquakes [4]. Furthermore, applications of fractional calculus have been reported in many areas such as physics [5], engineering [6], mathematical biology [7], [8], [9], finance [10], economy [11] and social sciences [12], [13].

There are many definitions of fractional order derivatives. The Riemann–Liouville definition [6] is one of these definitions and is given byDαf(t)=dldtlJl-αf(t),α>0,where Jθ is the θ-order Riemann–Liouville integral operator which is given asJθu(t)=1Γ(θ)0t(t-τ)θ-1u(τ)dτ,θ>0.

Another one is the Caputo definition of fractional derivatives [14], which is often used in real applications:Dαf(t)=Jl-αf(l)(t),α>0,where f(l) represents the l-order derivative of f(t) and l = [α], this means that l is the first integer which is not less than α. The operator Dα is called “Caputo differential operator of order α”.

On the other hand, chaos is an important dynamical phenomenon which has been extensively studied and developed by scientists since the work of Lorenz in 1963 [15]. The chaotic Liu system is one of the so called Lorenz family [16]. The Liu system has potential applications in secure communications [17] and its dynamical behaviors had been studied in [18]. Studying chaos in fractional order dynamical systems has become an interesting topic as well. Chaotic behaviors have been found in the fractional order systems of Lorenz [19], Chua [20], Chen [21], Rössler [22], Coullet [23], modified Van der Pol-Duffing [24] and Liu [25]. The fractional order Liu system has a circuit realization as shown in Ref. [26]. Also, the fractional order Liu system has been studied with time-delay in [27]. In Ref. [25], the authors have studied the dynamical behaviors of the fractional order Liu system with incommensurate orders using the classical stability theory of fractional order systems. It has been shown that, chaos in fractional order autonomous systems can occur for orders less than three and this cannot happen in their integer order counterparts according to the Poincaré-Bendixon theorem. Moreover, chaos control and synchronization are useful applications of chaos theory. Indeed, studying chaos control and synchronization in fractional order chaotic systems is just a recent focus of interest [28], [29], [30], [31], [32], [33], [34], [35], [36], [37], [38], [39], [40] due to their potential applications in industry and secure communications. So, when a fractional order system is chaotic and how to control and synchronize this chaos have been three very important problems.

In the past, most studies used the stability theory of fractional order systems in their dynamical analysis. This paper applies the fractional Routh-Hurwitz criteria to study chaos control of the commensurate fractional order Liu system and obtain some useful results. Using these new stability criteria for chaos control in fractional order systems enables us to understand the effect of fractional order on chaos control of Liu system. Thus, our new results are to show that the commensurate fractional order Liu system is controllable just in the fractional order case when using a specific choice of controllers. Moreover, a function projective synchronization technique (FPS) is used to achieve chaos synchronization between the integer order Liu system and its commensurate fractional order form. The FPS is the most general definition of projective synchronization (PS) and could additionally be used to enhance the security of communication.

The rest of the paper is organized as follows: In Section 2, a review on fractional calculus is given. In Section 3, the commensurate fractional order Liu system is presented then the existence and uniqueness of solutions for a class of this system are investigated. A necessary condition for the existence of chaotic attractor in the commensurate fractional order Liu system is shown in Section 4. Section 5 is devoted to show the effect of fractional order on chaos control of this system. In Section 6, synchronization between the integer order Liu system and its commensurate fractional order form is achieved. Finally, in Section 7, conclusions are drawn.

Section snippets

Preliminaries

Consider the initial value problem:Dαx(t)=f(t,x(t)),0tT,x(k)(0)=x0(k),k=0,1,...,l-1.

Theorem 1

Existence [41]

Assume that E:=[0,χ]×[x0(0)-ε,x0(0)+ε] with some χ > 0 and some ɛ > 0, and let the function f:E  R be continuous. In addition, let χ: = min {χ,(ɛΓ(α + 1)/||f||)1/α}. Then, there exists a function x:[0, χ]  R solving the initial value problem (4).

Theorem 2

Uniqueness [41]

Assume that E:=[0,χ]×[x0(0)-ε,x0(0)+ε] with some χ > 0 and some ɛ > 0. Moreover, let the function f:E  R be bounded on E and satisfy a Lipschitz condition with respect to the

The commensurate fractional order Liu system

The commensurate fractional order Liu system is given as follows:Dαx1=a(x2-x1),Dαx2=bx1-kx1x3,Dαx3=-cx3+σx12,where α is the fractional order and α(0,1]. The parameters a, c, k, σ are all positive real parameters and b ϵ R. When α = 1, system (12) becomes the original integer order Liu system which exhibits chaotic behaviors at the parameter values a = 10, b = 40, c = 2.5, σ = 4 and k = 1.

To evaluate the equilibrium points, let Dαx1(t)=0,Dαx2(t)=0 and Dαx3(t) = 0, then E0=(0,0,0),E1=(bc/σk,bc/σk,b/k) and E2=(-

Chaos in the commensurate fractional order Liu system

An efficient method for solving fractional order differential equations is the predictor–correctors scheme or more precisely, PECE (Predict, Evaluate, Correct, Evaluate) [41], [44], which represents a generalization of Adams–Bashforth-Moulton algorithm. This method is described as follows:

Set h=T/N,tn=nh,n=0,1,...,NZ+. Then Eq. (5) can be discretized as follows:xh(tn+1)=k=0[α]-1tn+1kk!x0(k)+hαΓ(α+2)f(tn+1,xhp(tn+1))+hαΓ(α+2)μj,n+1f(tj,xh(tj)),whereμj,n+1=nα+1-(n-α)(n+1)α,j=0,(n-j+2)α+1+(n-j)α

Controlling chaos

A three-dimensional commensurate fractional order chaotic system is described asdαxdtα=f(x),where x = (x1, x2, x3). The controlled system is given asdαxdtα=f(x)-K(x-x¯),where K=diag(κ1,κ2,κ3),κ1,κ2,κ30 and x¯=(x¯1,x¯2,x¯3) is an equilibrium point of (16). Now, if one selects the appropriate feedback control gains κ1,κ2,κ3 which then make the eigenvalues of the linearized equation of the controlled system (17) satisfy the above-mentioned stability conditions (i) and (ii), then the trajectories of

The Function projective synchronization between the commensurate fractional order Liu system and its integer order form

Here, our goal is to achieve chaos synchronization between the commensurate fractional order Liu system and its integer order form using function projective synchronization technique (FPS) which means that the drive and response systems could be synchronized up to a scaling function, but not a constant. Thus, FPS is considered to be more general definition of projective synchronization (PS), and it is used to obtain higher unpredictability of the error dynamical system which can enhance the

Conclusions

We have studied chaos control and synchronization of the commensurate fractional order Liu system. The existence and uniqueness of solutions of this system have been investigated. We have shown that chaos exists in this system with order less than three. Also, the effect of fractional order on chaos control has been shown; the commensurate fractional order Liu system is controlled to the equilibrium points E1 and E2 unlike its integer order counterpart when using specific choice of linear

Acknowledgements

The authors would like to thank the anonymous reviewers for their useful comments and suggestions which help to improve the style of this work.

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