“…Since the introduction of a method of synchronizing two identical chaotic systems with different initial conditions in the pioneering work of Pecora and Carroll, (1) chaos control and synchronization have become a very important topic in nonlinear science. Owing to the huge range of potential applications, chaos control and chaos synchronization (2)(3)(4)(5)(6)(7)(8)(9) have received a great deal of attention among researchers in many fields, such as physical (10) and chemical systems, (11,12) power converters, (13) ecological and biological systems, (14,15) financial systems, (16) and secure communication. (17,18) In applications, it is either inefficient or impractical to measure all the elements of the state vector under practical hardware limitations.…”