CONTROL AND SYNCHRONIZATION OF CHAOS IN HIGH-DIMENSIONAL SYSTEMS - REVIEW OF SOME RECENT RESULTS

Controlling chaos and synchronization of chaos have evolved for a numb er of years as essentially two separate areas of research. Only recent ly it has been realized that both subjects share a common root in cont rol theory. In addition, as limitations of low dimensional chaotic sys tems in modeling real world phenomena become increasingly apparent, in vestigations into the control and sychronization of high dimensional c haotic systems are beginning to attract more interest. We review some recent advances in control and synchronization of chaos in high dimens ional systems. Efforts will be made to stress the common origins of th e two subjects. (C) 1997 American Institute of Physics.