A new adaptive variable structure control for chaotic synchronization and secure communication

A novel adaptive complementary variable structure control is proposed in this paper for chaotic synchronization. The bounded parameters of the model approximation error and the external disturbance are all regarded as unknown constants in this paper. Based on Lyapunov’s stability theory and the Babalat’s lemma the proposed controller has been shown to render the synchronous error to zero. The Duffing–Holmes oscillator was used as an illustrative example. Simulation results validated that the proposed scheme in the application of secure communication.