Synchronization using dynamic coupling - art. no. 055204

A systematic coupling procedure is introduced for synchronizing arbitrary c haotic dynamical systems. This coupling exploits the existing contraction p roperties of the flow and surpresses divergence only along those directions in state space, where the underlying flow is not contracting. In this way, systems can be synchronized using a minimum of transmitted information for guaranteed high-quality synchronization. Applications in combination with sporadic driving and in partitioned state spaces are numerically illustrate d.