Output synchronization of chaotic systems under nonvanishing perturbations

In this paper, an analysis for chaos synchronization under nonvanishing perturbations is presented. In particular, we use model-matching approach from nonlinear control theory for output synchronization of identical and nonidentical chaotic systems under nonvanishing perturbations in a master–slave configuration. We show that the proposed approach is indeed suitable to synchronize a class of perturbed slaves with a chaotic master system; that is the synchronization error trajectories remain bounded if the perturbations satisfy some conditions. In order to illustrate this robustness synchronization property, we present two cases of study: (i) for identical systems, a pair of coupled Rössler systems, the first like a master and the other like a perturbed slave, and (ii) for nonidentical systems, a Chua’s circuit driving a Rössler/slave system with a perturbed control law, in both cases a quantitative analysis on the perturbation is included.