Estimation and identifiability of parameters for generalized Lotka-Volterra biological systems using adaptive controlled combination difference anti-synchronization (Q778852)

The authors apply an adaptive control method to identify unknown parameters in a predator-prey model whose dynamics exhibits chaotic behavior. The method is based in the construction of two ``master'' systems and one ``slave'' system, which have similar structure to the original system but different parameters. In addition, the ``slave'' system has an additive control \(\nu\) that is dependent of the state variables and the uncertain parameters of master and slave systems. The first section (Preliminaries) is devoted to describe the underlying theory of master and slave systems, the second section (asymptotic analysis) describes the error dynamics between master and slave systems. The third section introduces the predator-prey system studied in a work of \textit{N. Samardzija} and \textit{L. D. Greller} [Bull. Math. Biol. 50, No. 5, 465--491 (1988; Zbl 0668.92010)]: \[ \left\{\begin{array}{rcl} \dot{p}_{11}&=&p_{11}-p_{11}p_{12}+l_{3}p_{11}^{2}-l_{1}p_{11}^{2}p_{13}\\ \\ \dot{p}_{12}&=&-p_{12}+p_{11}p_{12}\\ \\ \dot{p}_{13}&=&-l_{2}p_{13}+l_{1}p_{11}^{2}p_{13}, \end{array}\right. \] where \(p_{11}\) is the prey population while\(p_{12}\) and \(p_{13}\) are the predators population. In absence of predators, the population dynamics of the prey is described by a logistic growth and \(l_{3}>0\) is the carrying capacity. On the other hand, in absence of preys, the predators \(p_{12}\) and \(p_{13}\) have an exponential decreasing. Nevertheless, in this article, in the third above equation, it is written \(l_{2}\) instead of \(-l_{2}\), which will imply that this predator will have an exponential growth, which is impossible. This reviewer believe that this is a typo, which is supported by the numerical simulations and the general treatment presented in the article. The authors construct the master and slave systems associated to the predator-prey model, deduce the equations describing the error dynamics and design the control inputs. The main result states that the equation describing the error dynamics is uniformly asymptotically stable and the proof is carried out by using the second Lyapunov method. Finally, a set of numerical simulations supporting the main result is described in detail.