This paper investigates the global synchronization problem of master-slave coupled multi-scroll saturated chaotic systems via single-state linear feedback control. An algebraic criterion for global synchronization is rigorously proven by means of the absolute stability theory. The obtained algebraic criterion is then optimized thereby deriving a less-conservative result, which is finally verified by numerical examples. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
The Šil'nikov homoclinic theorem provides one analytic criterion for proving the existence of chaos in three-dimensional autonomous nonlinear systems. In applications of the theorem, however, the existence of a homoclinic orbit that usually determines the geometric structure of the chaotic attractor is not easily verified mainly because there are no available efficient methods. In this paper, based on the undetermined coefficient approach we present a framework of how to find homoclinic orbits in two classes of three-dimensional autonomous nonlinear systems of normal forms, including how to set a reasonable form of expanding series of the homoclinic orbit, how to determine all coefficients in the expansion, and how to find a numerical homoclinic orbit. Numerical examples show that the proposed framework in combination with computer simulation is very efficient. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]