Outer Synchronization of Drive-Response Complex-Valued Complex Networks via Intermittent Pinning Control

This paper is concerned with the outer exponential synchronization of the drive-response complex dynamical networks subject to time-varying delays. The dynamics of nodes is complex valued, the interactions among of the nodes are directed, and the two coupling matrices in the drive system and the response system are also different. The intermittent pinning control is proposed to achieve outer exponential synchronization in the aperiodical way. Some novel sufficient conditions are derived to guarantee outer exponential synchronization of the considered complex-valued complex networks by using the Lyapunov functional method. Finally, two numerical examples are presented to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed control protocols.

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This paper addresses the outer exponential synchronization of complex dynamical networks with time-varying delays, proposing intermittent pinning control and deriving novel sufficient conditions using the Lyapunov functional method. Two numerical examples are presented to demonstrate the effectiveness of the control protocols in achieving synchronization.