Memristive oscillator based on Chua’s circuit: stability analysis and hidden dynamics

This paper presents a theoretical stability analysis of a memristive oscillator derived from Chua’s circuit in order to identify its different dynamics, which are mapped in parameter spaces. Since this oscillator can be represented as a nonlinear feedback system, its stability is analyzed using the method based on describing functions, which allows to predict fixed points, periodic orbits, hidden dynamics, routes to chaos, and unstable states. Bifurcation diagrams and attractors obtained from numerical simulations corroborate theoretical predictions, confirming the coexistence of multiple dynamics in the operation of this oscillator.     

Analytical solutions for asymmetric periodic motions to chaos in a hardening Duffing oscillator

In this paper, the analytical dynamics of asymmetric periodic motions in the periodically forced, hardening Duffing oscillator is investigated via the generalized harmonic balance method. For the hardening Duffing oscillator, the symmetric periodic motions were extensively investigated with the aim of a good understanding of solutions with jumping phenomena. However, the asymmetric periodic motions for the hardening Duffing oscillators have not been obtained yet, and such asymmetric periodic motions are very important to find routes of periodic motions to chaos in the hardening Duffing oscillator analytically. Thus, the bifurcation trees from asymmetric period-1 motions to chaos are presented. The corresponding unstable periodic motions in the hardening Duffing oscillator are presented, and numerical illustrations of stable and unstable periodic motions are carried out as well. This investigation provides a comprehensive understanding of chaos mechanism in the hardening Duffing oscillator.     

Non-lane-discipline-based car-following model incorporating the electronic throttle dynamics under connected environment

We investigate the nonlinear dynamics of a system of generalized Duffing-type MEMS resonator in the frame of simple analog electronic circuit. A mathematical model formed for the proposed generalized Duffing-type MEMS oscillator in which nonlinearities arising out of two different sources such as mid-plane stretching and electrostatic force can lead to variety of nonlinear phenomena such as period-doubling route, transient chaos and homo-/heteroclinic oscillations. These phenomena were confirmed through detailed numerical investigations such as phase portraits, bifurcation diagram, Poincaré map, Lyapunov exponent spectrum and finite-time Lyapunov exponent. The analog circuit realization for the Duffing-type MEMS resonator is constructed. The numerically simulated results are confirmed in the laboratory experimental observations which are closely matched with each other. The experimentally observed chaotic attractor confirmed through FFT spectrum, 0–1 test and Poincaré cross section. In addition, the robustness of the signal strength is confirmed through signal-to-noise ratio.     

Strong chaotification and robust chaos in the Duffing oscillator induced by two-frequency excitation

In this work, we demonstrate numerically that two-frequency excitation is an effective method to produce chaotification over very large regions of the parameter space for the Duffing oscillator with single- and double-well potentials. It is also shown that chaos is robust in the last case. Robust chaos is characterized by the existence of a single chaotic attractor which is not altered by changes in the system parameters. It is generally required for practical applications of chaos to prevent the effects of fabrication tolerances, external influences, and aging that can destroy chaos. After showing that very large and continuous regions in the parameter space develop a chaotic dynamics under two-frequency excitation for the double-well Duffing oscillator, we demonstrate that chaos is robust over these regions. The proof is based upon the observation of the monotonic changes in the statistical properties of the chaotic attractor when the system parameters are varied and by its uniqueness, demonstrated by changing the initial conditions. The effects of a second frequency in the single-well Duffing oscillator is also investigated. While a quite significant chaotification is observed, chaos is generally not robust in this case.

     

Dynamics analysis of Wien-bridge hyperchaotic memristive circuit system

In this paper, a hyperchaotic memristive circuit based on Wien-bridge chaotic circuit was designed. The mathematical model of the new circuit is established by using the method of normalized parameter. The equilibrium point and the stability point of the system are calculated. Meanwhile, the stable interval of corresponding parameter is determined. Using the conventional dynamic analysis method, the dynamical characteristics of the system are analyzed. During the analysis, some special phenomenon such as coexisting attractor is observed. Finally, the circuit simulation of system is designed and the practical circuit is realized. The results of theoretical analysis and numerical simulation show that the Wien-bridge hyperchaotic memristive circuit has very rich and complicated dynamical characteristics. It provides a theoretical guidance and a data support for the practical application of memristive chaotic system.     

Bifurcations in a forced softening duffing oscillator

The response of a damped Duffing oscillator of the softening type to a harmonic excitation is analyzed in a two-parameter space consisting of the frequency and amplitude of the excitation. An approximate procedure is developed for the generation of the bifurcation diagram in the parameter space of interest. It is a combination of second-order perturbation solutions of the system in the neighborhood of its non-linear resonances and Floquet analysis. The results show that the proposed scheme is capable of predicting symmetry-breaking and period-doubling bifurcations as well as Jumps to either bounded or unbounded motions. The results obtained are validated using analogand digital-computer simulations, which show chaos and unbounded motions, among other behaviors.     

Dynamical changes from harmonic vibrations of a limited power supply driving a Duffing oscillator

The harmonic oscillations of a Duffing oscillator driven by a limited power supply are investigated as a function of the alternative strength of the rotor. The semi-trivial and non-trivial solutions are derived. We examine the stability of these solutions and then explore the complex behaviors associated with the bifurcations sequences. Interestingly, a 3D diagram provides a global view of the effects of alternate strength on the appearance of chaos and hyperchaos on the system.     

含三次耦合项的两自由度Duffing系统的共振及混沌行为

研究了一类含三次耦合项的两自由度Duffing系统的动力学行为。首先应用多尺度方法近似求解系统的一阶稳态响应。通过讨论系统的主共振和1∶1内共振,分析了三次耦合项对系统响应的影响。随后研究系统随外加周期力强度变化的分岔过程,发现除了常见的倍周期分岔通向混沌外,还存在一种直接由周期运动进入混沌的突发路径。结合对系统的最大Lyapunov指数,相轨图及Poincar啨映射的分析验证了上述结论。     

Hyperchaotic memristive system with hidden attractors and its adaptive control scheme

In this research work a novel 4-D memristive system is presented. The proposed system belongs to the category of dynamical systems with hidden attractors as it displays a line of equilibrium points. Also, it has an hyperchaotic dynamical behavior in a particular range of its parameters space. System’s behavior is investigated through numerical simulations, by using well-known tools of nonlinear theory, such as phase portrait, bifurcation diagram, Lyapunov exponents and Poincaré map. Next, the case of chaos control of the system with unknown parameters using adaptive control method is investigated. Finally, an electronic circuit realization of the novel hyperchaotic system using Spice is presented in detail to confirm the feasibility of the theoretical model.     

Multistability analysis,circuit implementations and application in image encryption of a novel memristive chaotic circuit

A novel memristive chaotic circuit is proposed by replacing the Chua’s diode in modified Chua’s circuit with a smooth active memristor, and the corresponding memristive model is analyzed and validated. The equilibrium point set, dissipativity and stability of this new chaotic circuit are developed theoretically. The dynamic characteristics for the new system are presented by means of phase diagrams, Lyapunov exponents, bifurcation diagrams and Poincaré maps. The coexistence of the memristive system is carried out from the perspective of asymmetric coexistence and symmetry coexistence. In addition, the coexistence of multiple states is studied by a more direct method with initial value as the system variable to gain a more intuitive observation. The circuit model of the memristive chaotic system is designed through Multisim simulation software. Finally, the memristive chaotic sequence is used to encrypt the image, and the influence of multistability on the encryption is investigated by the histogram, correlation and key sensitivity. The results show that the proposed new memristive chaotic system has high security.     

A simple inductor-free memristive circuit with three line equilibria

In this work, a novel inductor-free fourth-order two-memristor-based chaotic circuit is proposed. This new circuit is developed from a current feedback op amp-based sinusoidal oscillator through replacing a linear resistor with a memristor and adding another different parallel memristor to the cascaded memristor–capacitor net. The proposed circuit can perform chaotic, fixed point, and period behaviors. The most striking feature is that this system has three line equilibria and exhibits the extreme multistability phenomenon of the coexisting infinitely many attractors. Specially, amplitude death behavior and transient transition behavior can also be found in the proposed system. By using standard nonlinear analysis tools including system dissipation, equilibrium point stability, phase portrait, Lyapunov exponent spectrum, and bifurcation diagram, the fundamental dynamical characteristics of the circuit are investigated in detail. Moreover, a MULTISIM circuit is designed to verify the numerical simulations.     

Reconstructing the transient,dissipative dynamics of a bistable Duffing oscillator with an enhanced averaging method and Jacobian elliptic functions

Systems characterized by the governing equation of the bistable, double-well Duffing oscillator are ever-present throughout the fields of science and engineering. While the prediction of the transient dynamics of these strongly nonlinear oscillators has been a particular research interest, the sufficiently accurate reconstruction of the dissipative behaviors continues to be an unrealized goal. In this study, an enhanced averaging method using Jacobian elliptic functions is presented to faithfully predict the transient, dissipative dynamics of a bistable Duffing oscillator. The analytical approach is uniquely applied to reconstruct the intrawell and interwell dynamic regimes. By relaxing the requirement for small variation of the transient, averaged parameters in the proposed solution formulation, the resulting analytical predictions are in excellent agreement with exact trajectories of displacement and velocity determined via numerical integration of the governing equation. A wide range of system parameters and initial conditions are utilized to assess the accuracy and computational efficiency of the analytical method, and the consistent agreement between numerical and analytical results verifies the robustness of the proposed method. Although the analytical formulations are distinct for the two dynamic regimes, it is found that directly splicing the inter- and intrawell predictions facilitates good agreement with the exact dynamics of the full reconstructed, transient trajectory.     

On the analysis of bipolar transistor based chaotic circuits: case of a two-stage colpitts oscillator

We perform a systematic analysis of a system consisting of a two-stage Colpitts oscillator. This well-known chaotic oscillator is a modification of the standard Colpitts oscillator obtained by adding an extra transistor and a capacitor to the basic circuit. The two-stage Colpitts oscillator exhibits better spectral characteristics compared to a classical single-stage Colpitts oscillator. This interesting feature is suitable for chaos-based secure communication applications. We derive a smooth mathematical model (i.e., sets of nonlinear ordinary differential equations) to describe the dynamics of the system. The stability of the equilibrium states is carried out and conditions for the occurrence of Hopf bifurcations are obtained. The numerical exploration reveals various bifurcation scenarios including period-doubling and interior crisis transitions to chaos. The connection between the system parameters and various dynamical regimes is established with particular emphasis on the role of both bias (i.e., power supply) and damping on the dynamics of the oscillator. Such an approach is particularly interesting as the results obtained are very useful for design engineers. The real physical implementation (i.e., use of electronic components) of the oscillator is considered to validate the theoretical analysis through several comparisons between experimental and numerical results.     

Elliptic averaging methods using the sum of Jacobian elliptic delta and zeta functions as the generating solution

The present paper describes an improved version of the elliptic averaging method that provides a highly accurate periodic solution of a non-linear system based on the single-degree-of-freedom Duffing oscillator with a snap-through spring. In the proposed method, the sum of the Jacobian elliptic delta and zeta functions is used as the generating solution of the averaging method. The proposed method can be used to obtain the non-odd-order solution, which includes both even- and odd-order harmonic components. The stability analysis for the approximate solution obtained by the present method is also discussed. The stability of the solution is determined from the characteristic multiplier based on Floquet’s theorem. The proposed method is applied to a fundamental oscillator in a non-linear system. The numerical results demonstrate that the proposed method is very effective for analyzing the periodic solution of half-swing mode for systems based on Duffing oscillators with a snap-through spring.     

Analog circuit implementation and synchronization of a system consisting of a van der Pol oscillator linearly coupled to a Duffing oscillator

This paper deals with the analog circuit implementation and synchronization of a model consisting of a van der Pol oscillator coupled to a Duffing oscillator. The coupling between the two oscillators is set in a symmetrical way that linearly depends on the difference of the systems solutions (i.e., elastic coupling). The primary motivation of our investigations lays in the fact that coupled attractors of different types might serve as a good model for real systems in nature (e.g., electromechanical, physical, biological, or economic systems). The stability of fixed points is examined. The bifurcation structures of the system are analyzed with particular emphasis on the effects of nonlinearity. An appropriate electronic circuit (analog simulator) is proposed for the investigation of the dynamical behavior of the system. Correspondences are established between the coefficients of the system model and the components of the electronic circuit. A comparison of experimental and numerical results shows a very good agreement. By exploiting recent results on adaptive control theory, a controller is designed that enables both synchronization of two unidirectionally coupled systems and the estimation of unknown parameters of the drive system.     

Bifurcation and route-to-chaos analyses for Mathieu–Duffing oscillator by the incremental harmonic balance method

Bifurcations and route to chaos of the Mathieu–Duffing oscillator are investigated by the incremental harmonic balance (IHB) procedure. A new scheme for selecting the initial value conditions is presented for predicting the higher order periodic solutions. A series of period-doubling bifurcation points and the threshold value of the control parameter at the onset of chaos can be calculated by the present procedure. A sequence of period-doubling bifurcation points of the oscillator are identified and found to obey the universal scale law approximately. The bifurcation diagram and phase portraits obtained by the IHB method are presented to confirm the period-doubling route-to-chaos qualitatively. It can also be noted that the phase portraits and bifurcation points agree well with those obtained by numerical time-integration.     

Antimonotonicity,chaos and multiple attractors in a novel autonomous memristor-based jerk circuit

A novel memristor-based oscillator derived from the autonomous jerk circuit (Sprott in IEEE Trans Circuits Syst II Express Briefs 58:240–243, 2011) is proposed. A first-order memristive diode bridge replaces the semiconductor diode of the original circuit. The complex behavior of the oscillator is investigated in terms of equilibria and stability, phase space trajectories plots, bifurcation diagrams, graphs of Lyapunov exponents, as well as frequency spectra. Antimonotonicity (i.e. concurrent creation and destruction of periodic orbits), chaos, periodic windows and crises are reported. More interestingly, one of the main features of the novel memristive jerk circuit is the presence of a region in the parameters’ space in which the model develops hysteretic behavior. This later phenomenon is marked by the coexistence of four different (periodic and chaotic) attractors for the same values of system parameters, depending solely on the choice of initial conditions. Basins of attractions of various competing attractors display complex basin boundaries thus suggesting possible jumps between coexisting solutions in experiment. Compared to previously published jerk circuits with similar behavior, the novel system distinguishes by the presence of a single equilibrium point and a relatively simpler structure (only off-the-shelf electronic components are involved). Results of theoretical analyses are perfectly traced by laboratory experimental measurements.     

Analysis and synthesis of oscillator systems described by a perturbed double-well Duffing equation

This paper presents an investigation of limit cycles in oscillator systems described by a perturbed double-well Duffing equation. The analysis of limit cycles is made by the Melnikov theory. Expressing the solutions of the unperturbed Duffing equation by Jacobi elliptic functions allows us to calculate explicitly the Melnikov function, whereupon the final result is a function involving the complete elliptic integrals. The Melnikov function is analyzed with the aid of the Picard–Fuchs and Riccati equations. It has been proved that the considered oscillator system can have two small hyperbolic limit cycles located symmetrically with respect to the y-axis, or one large hyperbolic limit cycle, or two large hyperbolic limit cycles, or one large limit cycle of multiplicity 2. Moreover, we have obtained the conditions under which each of these limit cycles arises. The present work gives the conditions for the arising of limit cycles around the homoclinic trajectory. In this connection, an alternative approach is proposed for obtaining a series expansion of the Melnikov function near the homoclinic trajectory. This approach uses the series expansion of the complete elliptic integrals as the elliptic modulus tends to 1. It is shown that a jumping phenomenon may occur between limit cycles in the analyzed oscillator system. The conditions for the occurrence of this jumping phenomenon are given. A method for the synthesis of an oscillator system with a preliminary assigned limit cycle is also presented in the article. The obtained analytical results are illustrated and confirmed by numerical simulations.     

Dynamics of a cantilever arm actuated by a nonlinear electrical circuit

The idea in this paper is to present some analytical and numerical results on the investigation of the dynamics of a nonlinear electromechanical system including a cantilever robot arm manipulator, harmonically actuated through an electric circuit. We use the method of harmonic balance to derive oscillatory solutions. Forced vibrations are analyzed showing that numerical results are in agreement with those obtained analytically for the stationary response. The system presents various types of nonlinear behaviors including chaos.     

An experimental study on SC-CNN based canonical Chua’s circuit

In this paper, a State Controlled Cellular Neural Network (SC-CNN) based autonomous canonical Chua’s circuit is presented. The proposed system is modeled by using suitable connection of three simple state controlled generalized CNN cells. The stability of the circuit is studied by determining the eigenvalues of the stability matrices, while the dynamics as well as onset of chaos have been studied through real time experiments and numerical analysis of the generalized SC-CNN equations. The experimental results such as phase portraits and power spectra are in good agreement with those of numerical computations.