Pinning Control of Synchronization in Complex Dynamical Networks

Speaker: Professor Guanrong (Ron) Chen

Faculty Host: Professor Jhong-Ping Jiang

Abstract

Pinning control of synchronization over complex dynamical networks is addressed. Notion of synchronization and some criteria are firstly introduced for various dynamical networks, such as fully-connected, ring-shaped and star-shaped regular networks, as well as small-world and scale-free complex networks. Notion of pinning-controlled synchronization is then discussed, for networks that do not satisfy self-synchronized conditions. Some commonly concerned questions are also discussed, such as what kind of controllers to deploy, how many to use, and where to apply them on a given network, so as to achieve effective network synchronization. A simple state-feedback pinning control method is finally introduced, supported by numerical simulation examples.

About the Speaker

Professor Chen received the M.Sc. degree in Computer Science from the Sun Yat-sen University, China and the Ph.D. degree in Applied Mathematics from Texas A&M University, USA. Currently he is a Chair Professor and the Founding Director of the Centre for Chaos and Complex Networks at the City University of Hong Kong. Prof. Chen is Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Magazine and the International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos. He received four best journal paper awards in the past, and is Honorary Professor in twenty some universities worldwide.