Topology-free design for amplitude death in time-delayed oscillators coupled by a delayed connection.

This paper deals with amplitude death in time-delayed oscillators coupled by a delayed connection with topology uncertainty. A systematic procedure without trial-and-error testing for designing connection parameters is proposed from a robust control theory viewpoint. This procedure has the following two advantages: the designed connection parameters are valid for any network topology and the procedure is valid even for long-delay oscillators. These analytical results are verified by some numerical simulations.