Adaptive reduced-order anti-synchronization of chaotic systems with fully unknown parameters

In this paper, we investigate the reduced-order anti-synchronization of uncertain chaotic systems. Based upon the parameters modulation and the adaptive control techniques, we show that dynamical evolution of third-order chaotic system can be anti-synchronized with the canonical projection of a fourth-order chaotic system even though their parameters are unknown. The techniques are successfully applied to two examples: hyperchaotic Lorenz system (fourth-order) and Lorenz system (third-order); Lu hyperchaotic system (fourth-order) and Chen system (third-order). Theoretical analysis and numerical simulations are shown to verify the results. (C) 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.