Event-Triggered Stabilisation of Desynchronisation in Networked Oscillatory Systems

Abstract

Pathological neuronal synchrony provides one practical motivation for studying sparse desynchronisation control in networked oscillatory systems, particularly in applications where actuation and communication are resource constrained, as in deep brain stimulation. Motivated by this challenge, we study how to stabilise desynchronisation in coupled oscillatory dynamical systems without continuously updated control, even when the oscillators' phase is unavailable. We develop a general event-triggered control framework for stabilising the desynchronised state of coupled limit-cycle oscillatory dynamical systems. Our analysis establishes a unified theoretical result showing that desynchronisation can be achieved by various feedback controllers that act sparsely and depend only on an order parameter observable. The proposed controllers admit a gradient-descent interpretation and stabilise the desynchronisation state of general phase-reduced oscillator networks. We further prove the controlled systems under event-triggered mechanisms possess a strictly positive lower bound of the inter-event dwell-time, excluding Zeno behaviour. To address the practical unavailability of exact phase reductions, we introduce a pseudo-phase construction that yields a computable order parameter from state measurements alone. Numerical studies on representative oscillator networks demonstrate the effectiveness and robustness of the proposed framework.