In this paper, based on the invariance principle of differential equations, we propose a simple adaptive control method to synchronize the network with coupling of the general form. Comparing with other control approaches, this scheme only depends on each node's state output. So we need not to know the concrete network structure and the solutions of the isolate nodes of the network in advance. In order to demonstrate the effectiveness of the method, a special example is provided and numerical simulations are performed. The numerical results show that our control scheme is very effective and robust against the weak noise.
It is known that the solution to a Cauchy problem of linear differential equations:x'(t)=A(t)x(t),with x(t0)=x0,can be presented by the matrix exponential as exp(∫_(t0)^(t)A(s)ds)x0,if the commutativity condition for the coefficient matrix A(t)holds:[∫_(t0)^(t)A(s)ds,A(t)]=0.A natural question is whether this is true without the commutativity condition.To give a definite answer to this question,we present two classes of illustrative examples of coefficient matrices,which satisfy the chain rule d/dt exp(∫_(t0)^(t)A(s)ds)=A(t)exp(∫_(t0)^(t)A(s)ds),but do not possess the commutativity condition.The presented matrices consist of finite-times continuously differentiable entries or smooth entries.
