Synchronization of moving chaotic agents

Phys Rev Lett. 2008 Feb 1;100(4):044102. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.044102. Epub 2008 Jan 30.

Abstract

We consider a set of mobile agents in a two dimensional space, each one of them carrying a chaotic oscillator, and discuss the related synchronization issues under the framework of time-variant networks. In particular, we show that, as far as the time scale for the motion of the agents is much shorter than that of the associated dynamical systems, the global behavior can be characterized by a scaled all-to-all Laplacian matrix, and the synchronization conditions depend on the agent density on the plane.