Synchronization of the fractional order chaotic systems is extensively studied in recent years due to its potential applications in many branches of science and engineering. The main problems in this field are that the dynamics of the system in hand are often uncertain and are perturbed by external disturbances. Also the unknown nonlinear functions in the system dynamics are generally complicated and in many practical applications we have measurement errors and unavailable states. In this paper, a novel robust and asymptotically stable controller is proposed to synchronize uncertain fractional order chaotic systems. Its design is based on linear matrix inequality (LMI) technique. Furthermore, an observer is presented to estimate the unavailable states. A general type-2 fuzzy system (GT2FS) based on  α -plane representation with Gaussian secondary membership functions (MF) and type-2 non-singleton fuzzification is proposed to approximate the unknown complex nonlinear functions in the dynamics of system. The input uncertainties associated with the observer error and the malfunctioning of the input devices are modeled by interval type-2 fuzzy MFs instead of crisp numbers. To decrease the computational cost of the GT2FS, a simple type-reduction method is proposed. The antecedent parameters of GT2FS are tuned based on a modified form of social spider optimization (SSO) algorithm. The simulation examples show that the proposed control scheme gives high performance in the presence of unknown functions, external disturbances and unavailable states. The performance of GT2FS with different  α -levels and different fuzzification methods are compared with type-1 and interval type-2 fuzzy systems in several examples.
['Ardashir Mohammadzadeh', 'Sehraneh Ghaemi', 'Okyay Kaynak', 'Sohrab Khanmohammadi']
Observer-based method for synchronization of uncertain fractional order chaotic systems by the use of a general type-2 fuzzy system