RESEARCH ARTICLE Structure Identification of Uncertain Complex Networks Based on Anticipatory Projective Synchronization

This paper investigates a method to identify uncertain system parameters and unknown topological structure in general complex networks with or without time delay. A complex net-work, which has uncertain topology and unknown parameters, is designed as a drive net-work, and a known response complex network with an input controller is designed to identify the drive network. Under the proposed input controller, the drive network and the response network can achieve anticipatory projective synchronization when the system is steady. Lyapunov theorem and Barbǎlat’s lemma guarantee the stability of synchronization manifold between two networks. When the synchronization is achieved, the system param-eters and topology in response network can be changed to equal with the parameters and topology in drive network. A numerical example is given to show the effectiveness of the proposed method