Robust nonlinear H/sub ∞/ synchronization of chaotic Lur'e systems

We propose a method of robust nonlinear H/sub /spl infin// master-slave synchronization for chaotic Lur'e systems with applications to secure communication. The scheme makes use of vector field modulation and either full static state or linear dynamic output error feedback control. The master-slave systems are assumed to be nonidentical and channel noise is taken into account. Binary valued continuous time message signals are recovered by minimizing the L/sub 2/-gain from the exogenous input to the tracking error for the standard plant representation of the scheme. The exogenous input takes into account the message signal, channel noise and parameter mismatch. Matrix inequality conditions for dissipativity with finite L/sub 2/-gain of the standard plant form are derived based on a quadratic storage function. The controllers are designed by solving a nonlinear optimization problem which takes into account both channel noise and parameter mismatch. The method is illustrated on Chua's circuit.