Pinning Lur’e Complex Networks via Output Feedback Control

Liu, Fang; Song, Qiang; Cao, Jinde; Lu, Jianquan

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Pinning Lur’e Complex Networks via Output Feedback Control

Fang Liu,¹Qiang Song,¹Jinde Cao,^2,3and Jianquan Lu²

Academic Editor: Guanghui Wen

Received06 Feb 2014

Accepted05 Mar 2014

Published13 Apr 2014

Abstract

Without requiring the full-state information of network nodes, this paper studies the pinning synchronization in a network of Lur’e dynamical systems based on the output feedback control strategy. Some simple pinning conditions are established for both undirected and directed Lur’e networks by using -matrix theory and -procedure technique. With the derived stability criteria, the pinning synchronization problem of large-scale Lur’e networks can be transformed to the test of a low-dimensional linear matrix inequality. Some remarks are further given to address the selection of pinned nodes and the design of pinning feedback gains. Numerical results are provided to demonstrate the effectiveness of the theoretical analysis.

1. Introduction

Lur’e systems refer to class of nonlinear dynamical systems which are formed by a linear system and a nonlinear feedback loop satisfying a sector condition. Actually, many nonlinear systems, such as Chua’s circuit system and some hyperchaotic systems, can be described by Lur’e systems. Over the past few decades, much effort has been devoted to the research on Lur’e systems. The stability problem of Lur’e systems has been intensively studied, yielding some fundamental results such as the circle and Popov criteria [1–6]. The synchronization problem of Lur’e systems has also been deeply investigated for the purpose of secure communication and engineering applications [7–12].

Recently, the synchronization phenomena in complex dynamical networks with each node being a Lur’e system have attracted increasing attention. Liu et al. [13] addressed the global synchronization in coupled Lur’e systems based on the absolute stability theory. Ding and Han [14] studied the effect of the communication delay on the synchronization in Lur’e networks. Ji et al. [15] considered the synchronization problem for complex networks composed of time-delayed Lur’e systems. It is worth noting that the Lur’e networks in [13–15] achieved synchronization by local interactions among network nodes without involving any external force. When a Lur’e network cannot reach synchronization by itself, some appropriate controllers may be designed such that the entire network can be synchronized to some desired trajectory.

For a complex network with a large number of nodes, it is literally impossible to apply control actions to all nodes due to the high control cost. Current studies have shown that the pinning control strategy [16–22] can be utilized to synchronize a network to a homogenous state, where local feedback injections are only placed on a small fraction of network nodes. The pinning control problem for Lur’e networks with undirected topologies has been investigated by some researchers [23–25]. More recently, Song et al. [26] developed some simple pinning conditions for Lur’e complex networks with directed topologies by using -matrix [27, 28] and algebraic graph theories.

In the pinning control of complex networks, how to choose a set of pinned nodes is one of the most difficult problems. For an undirected and connected network, it is well-known that the network can be synchronized if a subset of nodes is either specifically or randomly pinned [16, 17]. As for a directed network, it has been proved that pinning control should be applied to the roots of a minimum number of directed spanning forests of the network topology [18, 19, 21]. Song and Cao [22] showed that the nodes whose out-degrees are bigger than their in-degrees must be chosen as pinned candidates. More recently, by using -matrix theory, Song et al. [26, 29, 30] and Wen et al. [31] derived some stability criteria for pinning networked systems with directed topologies. In particular, some M-matrix strategies were developed to discuss several challenging problems in the pinning control of networked systems [30].

In most literature, the synchronization of complex networks is usually reached by using the full states of network nodes which may not always be available in many practical cases [32–35]. Note that some observer-based algorithms have been developed for achieving synchronization in complex networks [36, 37]. In this paper, we investigate the pinning synchronization of Lur’e complex networks by utilizing the observed states, that is, output states, of network nodes. Without requiring full state information of network nodes, we propose a distributed output feedback control approach to pin Lur’e networks with node dynamics satisfying sector conditions. Then, by using -matrix and algebraic graph theories, we derive some simple stability criteria to convert the pinning control problem of Lur’e networks into the test of a linear matrix inequality whose dimension is just determined by a single Lur’e node. Moreover, we discuss the selection of pinned nodes and the design of pinning feedback gains for both undirected and directed Lur’e complex networks.

The rest of this paper is organized as follows. In Section 2, some preliminaries are provided. Section 3 formulates the pinning control problem of Lur’e networks with output feedback coupling. Sections 4 and 5 derive some pinning conditions for undirected and directed Lur’e networks, respectively. In Section 6, numerical results are given to validate the theoretical analysis. Finally, some concluding remarks are stated in Section 7.

2. Preliminaries

In this section, we provide some mathematical preliminaries and some supporting lemmas to derive the main results of this paper.

2.1. Notations

The standard notations are used throughout this paper. Let and denote the sets of real and complex numbers, respectively. For , represents its real part. Let be the -dimensional identity matrix and let () be the vector of all ones (zeros). For a matrix , let be its transpose, its inverse, its symmetric part, and the th eigenvalue, and let denote the minimum real part of all its eigenvalues. For a real symmetric matrix , let and be its minimum and maximum eigenvalues, respectively, and write () if is positive (negative) definite. The symbol denotes the Kronecker product [27].

2.2. Graph Theory

The information interaction in a networked system can be described by a weighted graph which is composed of a node set , an edge set , and an adjacency matrix . A directed edge between two different nodes is denoted by indicating that node can access the information from node . The th entry of the adjacency matrix is defined by [29–31, 38, 39]. In this paper, it is always assumed that for all . The elements of the Laplacian matrix associated with the adjacency matrix are defined as follows:

A directed path is a sequence of directed edges with distinct nodes. A digraph with nodes is called a directed tree if it has edges and there exists a node with directed paths to every other node. A digraph is called strongly connected if for any two different nodes and , one can always find a directed path from node to node . A digraph is said to have or contain a directed spanning tree if there exists at least one node having a directed path to every other node [29–31, 38, 39].

2.3. -Matrix Theory

Some results related to -matrix will be used to study the pinning synchronization of Lur’e complex networks.

Definition 1 (see [27, 28]). A nonsingular matrix is called an -matrix if whenever and all elements of are nonnegative.

Lemma 2 (see [27, 28]). For a nonsingular matrix with , the following statements are equivalent: (1)is an M-matrix;(2)all eigenvalues of have positive real parts; that is, for all ;(3)there exists a positive definite diagonal matrix such that is positive definite.

2.4. Some Supporting Lemmas

Some properties of the Kronecker product are listed as follows.

Lemma 3 (see [27]). For matrices , , , and with appropriate dimensions, one has (1);(2); (3).

Lemma 4 (see [40]). Let be symmetric. One has , for all .

The -procedure technique [1] which is widely used to study the stability problem of Lur’e dynamical systems can be stated as follows.

Lemma 5 (see [1]). Let be quadratic forms over . One has for all satisfying , , if there exist some nonnegative numbers such that .

Lemma 6 (Schur complement [1]). The following linear matrix inequality (LMI) where , is equivalent to either of the following conditions: (1), ;(2), .

3. Output Feedback Control Algorithm for Pinning Lur’e Networks

Consider a complex network with each node being a Lur’e dynamical system described by where is the state variable of the th node, is the output state of the th node, and , , with being its th row; the nonlinear vector-valued function satisfies the following sector conditions:

In many practical cases, the full states of network nodes are not always available. By utilizing the output states of network nodes, we consider the following Lur’e network model: where is the coupling strength, is the th entry of Laplacian matrix , is the output feedback gain matrix, and is the control input to be designed.

Note that the isolated node (or leader node) for Lur’e complex network (5) is given by where and .

Definition 7. The Lur’e complex network (5) is said to be globally asymptotically synchronized to the isolated node (6); that is, , , as , for any initial condition.
To reduce the number of controllers, one can adopt the pinning control strategy to synchronize complex network (5) to the isolated node (6). For Lur’e network (5), let and be the sets of total and pinned nodes, respectively, where . Applying pinning control to network (5) yields where the pinning feedback gains are defined as follows:

Suppose that the matrix pair in complex network (7) is detectable, and the output feedback gain matrix is designed as , where is a positive definite matrix to be determined later. Then the pinning-controlled Lur’e network (7) becomes

Remark 8. If the matrix pair is detectable, there always exists a matrix to ensure that is a Hurwitz matrix. Moreover, one can always find a positive definite matrix and a positive scalar such that [1].

Remark 9. In most literature, the pinning control approaches for complex networks usually require full states of network nodes [18–22, 29, 30]. Note that the pinning control algorithm (9) is actually implemented by utilizing the output states of network nodes.
For the convenience of our discussions in this paper, let be the Laplacian matrix of network (5), the matrix of pinning feedback gains defined by (8), and the matrix describing the sector condition (4).

Let and , . Then by (4), we have satisfying which is equivalent to

From (6) and (9), we obtain the following error system:

Let and . Rewrite (12) in the matrix form as

By using -matrix theory, Song et al. [29, 30] have shown that , that is, plays an important role in investigating the pinning control of networked systems. The following result is useful to study the synchronization problem of Lur’e network (9).

Lemma 10 (see [30]). Let be the augmented digraph formed by the nodes of Lur’e network (5) and the isolated node (6). One has if and only if contains a directed spanning tree, which means that the isolated node (6) has a directed path to every other network node.

Remark 11. By Lemmas 2 and 10 and the definition of in (1), one knows that is an -matrix if and only if contains a directed spanning tree. Moreover, is positive definite if is symmetric.

4. Pinning Criteria for Undirected Lur’e Network

In this section, we consider the pinning synchronization of Lur’e network (9) with undirected topology and derive some simple pinning conditions for the network by using linear matrix inequality (LMI) and the -procedure [1, 5, 8].

Theorem 12. Suppose that and there exist a positive definite matrix and a matrix such that where . Then, the pinning-controlled Lur’e network (9) globally asymptotically synchronizes to the isolated node (6).

Proof . Since is a real symmetric matrix, one knows that all eigenvalues of are real. It follows from the condition of the theorem that the minimum eigenvalue of is a positive number; that is, . Then we see that is a positive definite matrix. By Lemma 4, we have .
From sector condition (11) and , , we obtain which is equivalent to
Take the Lyapunov function candidate as where satisfies condition (14).
Considering Lemma 3, inequality (16), and the -procedure stated in Lemma 5, we calculate the time derivative of along the trajectory of error system (13) as follows: where , , and is defined in (14).
By (14) and (18), we know that and if and only if . Thus, the set is the largest invariant set contained in the set for error system (13). According to LaSalle’s invariance principle [5], starting from any initial condition, every solution of error system (13) approaches as , which indicates , . Then the error system (13) is asymptotically stable at the origin. Therefore, the pinning-controlled Lur’e network (9) globally asymptotically synchronizes to the isolated node (6).

Remark 13. Note that the dimension of LMI condition (14) is equal to determined by the single Lur’e node.

Remark 14. In Remark 8, we have pointed out that one can find a positive definite matrix and a scalar such that if the pair is detectable. In view of Lemma 6, we see that the detectability of provides a necessary condition for the solvability of LMI (14).

Remark 15. From condition (14) in Theorem 12, we know that the quantity is very important to study the synchronization in undirected Lur’e network (9). Suppose that the network topology is composed of several disconnected components. By Lemma 10 and Remark 11, at least one node in each component should be pinned such that is positive definite, and the pinned nodes can be randomly or specifically chosen. For better pinning control performance, one can pin the most highly connected nodes to achieve larger such that condition (14) can be satisfied more easily.

5. Pinning Criteria for Directed Lur’e Network

In this section, we study the pinning synchronization of Lur’e network (9) with directed topology. Due to asymmetric coupling, the pinning synchronization problem of directed complex networks is more difficult than that of undirected networks. M-matrix theory will be adopted to derive some pinning conditions for directed Lur’e network (9).

Theorem 16. Suppose that is not symmetric. Assume that a positive definite matrix and a matrix can be found such that where is a positive scalar subject to Then, Lur’e network (9) globally asymptotically synchronizes to the isolated node (6).

Proof . Let be the th eigenvalue of . It is easy to verify that is the th eigenvalue of . It follows from condition (20) that holds for all . Then, by the definition of in (1) and Lemma 2, we know that is an -matrix and there exists a positive definite diagonal matrix such that
Construct the following Lyapunov function candidate: where satisfies condition (19).
The time derivative of along the trajectory of error system (13) yields where the first inequality is obtained by applying inequality (16), the last inequality follows (21) and the fact , , , and is defined in (19).
By LaSalle’s invariance principle, we can show that , , which indicates that the pinning-controlled Lur’e network (9) globally asymptotically synchronizes to the isolated node (6).

Remark 17. From condition (20) in Theorem 16, we know that a set of pinned nodes should be selected to ensure . For a directed network, suppose that the multiplicity of the zero eigenvalue of is equal to . Song et al. [30] decomposed the network topology into components, where each component has a directed tree. By Lemma 10, at least one root node in each component should be pinned such that is an M-matrix, which means that the minimum number of pinned nodes is . It is worth mentioning that the remaining nodes can be rearranged in descending order according to the differences of their out-degrees and in-degrees [29]. When the network topology contains a directed spanning tree, the Laplacian matrix has a simple zero eigenvalue [38]; that is, . Then it is possible to pin Lur’e network (9) if the coupling strength is sufficiently large in view of conditions (19) and (20), which also confirms the pioneering work in [18].

Remark 18. Song et al. [30] have shown that monotonically increases with respect to the number of pinned nodes or pinning feedback gains. However, always holds even if the pinning feedback gains are sufficiently large. Therefore, it would be desirable to synchronize Lur’e network (9) by pinning a least number of nodes with relatively lower control gains.

Remark 19. One may use to replace the parameter in (19) to derive pinning condition for directed Lur’e networks, which will involve the computation of the matrix . Moreover, it will be quite difficult to discuss the selection of pinned nodes and the design of pinning feedback gains. Thus, we intentionally introduce the parameter in Theorem 16 as a transitional variable to derive condition (19). Treating as a scalar matrix, we can solve LMIs (19) and (20) with Matlab LMI toolbox to obtain appropriate parameters and . If no feasible solution is found, we can gradually increase the pinning feedback gains or continually add more nodes to to increase until conditions (19) and (20) are satisfied.

6. Numerical Results

In this section, some simulation results are given to verify our theoretical analysis. For a complex network with nodes, the quantity is used to measure the quality of the pinning process [18, 22].

Consider a Lur’e complex network in the form of (5) composed of fifty nodes: where is the state variable of the th node, , with , , and ; the nonlinear function is given by

The interaction digraph of Lur’e network (24) is determined by a directed scale-free network generated by using the techniques in [20]. According to [20], is strongly connected and thus contains a directed spanning tree. Based on Remark 17, we know that the minimum number of pinned nodes is one and any node can be chosen to be pinned. When node is pinned with control gain , we have

It is easy to verify that the matrix pair is detectable, and the nonlinear function belongs to the sector which means that . Solving LMIs (19) and (20) in Theorem 16, we obtain the following feasible solution:

With the output feedback control algorithm (9), we apply pinning control to node of Lur’e network (24). The time evolutions of network state and synchronization error are shown in Figures 1 and 2, respectively. We can clearly see that the Lur’e network with fifty nodes is successfully synchronized to a homogenous state by pinning a single network node.

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7. Conclusions

This paper proposes a distributed output feedback control approach to investigate the pinning synchronization in Lur’e complex networks. By using the tools from M-matrix theory, Lyapunov functional method, and observer techniques for nonlinear systems, some simple pinning criteria in terms of low-dimensional LMIs, whose dimensions are just determined by that of the single Lur’e node, have been derived for Lur’e networks with undirected and directed topologies, respectively. Numerical simulations have validated the effectiveness of the theoretical analysis. Since the time delay is inevitable in natural and physical systems, in the near future, it would be of interest to study the pinning control problem for Lur’e networks with both discrete and distributed time-delayed coupling on the basis of output feedback control strategies.

Conflict of Interests

The authors declare that there is no conflict of interests regarding the publication of this paper.

Acknowledgments

This work was jointly supported by the National Science Foundation of China under Grants no. 61273218, 61304172, 61272530, and 61175119 and the Natural Science Foundation of Henan Province of China under Grant nos. 122102210027, 122300410220, and 12B480005.

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