Adaptive pinning cluster synchronization of a stochastic reaction–diffusion complex network.

This work aims to achieve cluster synchronization of a complex network by some pinning control strategies. Firstly, the network not only is affected by the reaction–diffusion and the directed coupling phenomena, but also is disturbed by the stochastic noise and Markovian switching. Secondly, switched constant gain pinning, centralized and decentralized adaptive pinning are proposed respectively to realize the cluster synchronization of the considered network. In these adaptive pinning controllers, the control gain and coupling strength can been adjusted automatically while only a part of the nodes are controlled. Thirdly, the target state of cluster synchronization is taken as the average state related to the directed topology of all nodes in the same cluster, and does not need to be given separately as an isolated node. Finally, to verify the theoretical results, some simulations of directed coupled reaction–diffusion neural networks with stochastic noise and Markovian switching are given. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]