Birth of bilayered torus and torus breakdown in a piecewise-smooth dynamical system

Border-collision bifurcations arise when the periodic trajectory of a piecewise-smooth system under variation of a parameter crosses into a region with different dynamics. Considering a three-dimensional map describing the behavior of a DC/DC power converter, the Letter discusses a new type of border-collision bifurcation that leads to the birth of a “bilayered torus”. This torus consists of the union of two saddle cycles, their unstable manifolds, and a stable focus cycle. When changing the parameters, the bilayered torus transforms through a border-collision bifurcation into a resonance torus containing the stable cycle and a saddle. The Letter also presents scenarios for torus destruction through homoclinic and heteroclinic tangencies.     

Border collision route to quasiperiodicity: Numerical investigation and experimental confirmation

Numerical studies of higher-dimensional piecewise-smooth systems have recently shown how a torus can arise from a periodic cycle through a special type of border-collision bifurcation. The present article investigates this new route to quasiperiodicity in the two-dimensional piecewise-linear normal form map. We have obtained the chart of the dynamical modes for this map and showed that border-collision bifurcations can lead to the birth of a stable closed invariant curve associated with quasiperiodic or periodic dynamics. In the parameter regions leading to the existence of an invariant closed curve, there may be transitions between an ergodic torus and a resonance torus, but the mechanism of creation for the resonance tongues is distinctly different from that observed in smooth maps. The transition from a stable focus point to a resonance torus may lead directly to a new focus of higher periodicity, e.g., a period-5 focus. This article also contains a discussion of torus destruction via a homoclinic bifurcation in the piecewise-linear normal map. Using a dc-dc converter with two-level control as an example, we report the first experimental verification of the direct transition to quasiperiodicity through a border-collision bifurcation.     

Multilayered tori in a system of two coupled logistic maps

The Letter describes different mechanisms for the formation and destruction of tori that are formed as layered structures of several sets of interlacing manifolds, each with their associated stable and unstable resonance modes. We first illustrate how a three layered torus can arise in a system of two coupled logistic maps through period-doubling or pitchfork bifurcations of the saddle cycle on an ordinary resonance torus. We hereafter present two different scenarios by which a multilayered torus can be destructed. One scenario involves a cascade of period-doubling bifurcations of both the stable and the saddle cycles, and the second scenario describes a transition in which homoclinic bifurcations destroy first the two outer layers and thereafter also the inner layer of a three-layered torus. It is suggested that the formation of multilayered tori is a generic phenomenon in non-invertible maps.     

Novel routes to chaos through torus breakdown in non-invertible maps

The paper describes a number of new scenarios for the transition to chaos through the formation and destruction of multilayered tori in non-invertible maps. By means of detailed, numerically calculated phase portraits we first describe how three- and five-layered tori arise through period-doubling and/or pitchfork bifurcations of the saddle cycle on an ordinary resonance torus. We then describe several different mechanisms for the destruction of five-layered tori in a system of two linearly coupled logistic maps. One of these scenarios involves the destruction of the two intermediate layers of the five-layered torus through the transformation of two unstable node cycles into unstable focus cycles, followed by a saddle-node bifurcation that destroys the middle layer and a pair of simultaneous homoclinic bifurcations that produce two invariant closed curves with quasiperiodic dynamics along the sides of the chaotic set. Other scenarios involve different combinations of local and global bifurcations, including bifurcations that lead to various forms of homoclinic and heteroclinic tangles. We finally demonstrate that essentially the same scenarios can be observed both for a system of nonlinearly coupled logistic maps and for a couple of two-dimensional non-invertible maps that have previously been used to study the properties of invariant sets.     

Equilibrium-torus bifurcation in nonsmooth systems

Considering a set of two coupled nonautonomous differential equations with discontinuous right-hand sides describing the behavior of a DC/DC power converter, we discuss a border-collision bifurcation that can lead to the birth of a two-dimensional invariant torus from a stable node equilibrium point. We obtain the chart of dynamic modes and show that there is a region of parameter space in which the system has a single stable node equilibrium point. Under variation of the parameters, this equilibrium may disappear as it collides with a discontinuity boundary between two smooth regions in the phase space. The disappearance of the equilibrium point is accompanied by the soft appearance of an unstable focus period-1 orbit surrounded by a resonant or ergodic torus.Detailed numerical calculations are supported by a theoretical investigation of the normal form map that represents the piecewise linear approximation to our system in the neighbourhood of the border. We determine the functional relationships between the parameters of the normal form map and the actual system and illustrate how the normal form theory can predict the bifurcation behaviour along the border-collision equilibrium-torus bifurcation curve.     

Robust dangerous border-collision bifurcations in piecewise smooth systems

Physical and computer experiments involving systems describable by piecewise smooth continuous maps that are nondifferentiable on some surface in phase space exhibit novel types of bifurcations in which an attracting fixed point exists before and after the bifurcation. The striking feature of these bifurcations is that they typically lead to "unbounded behavior" of orbits as a system parameter is slowly varied through its bifurcation value. This new type of border-collision bifurcation is fundamental and robust. A method that prevents such "dangerous border-collision bifurcations" is given. These bifurcations may be found in a variety of experiments including circuits.     

Direct transition from a stable equilibrium to quasiperiodicity in non-smooth systems

The purpose of this Letter is to show how a border-collision bifurcation in a piecewise-smooth dynamical system can produce a direct transition from a stable equilibrium point to a two-dimensional invariant torus. Considering a system of nonautonomous differential equations describing the behavior of a power electronic DC/DC converter, we first determine the chart of dynamical modes and show that there is a region of parameter space in which the system has a single stable equilibrium point. Under variation of the parameters, this equilibrium may collide with a discontinuity boundary between two smooth regions in phase space. When this happens, one can observe a number of different bifurcation scenarios. One scenario is the continuous transformation of the stable equilibrium into a stable period-1 cycle. Another is the transformation of the stable equilibrium into an unstable period-1 cycle with complex conjugate multipliers, and the associated formation of a two-dimensional (ergodic or resonant) torus.     

From multi-layered resonance tori to period-doubled ergodic tori

The Letter presents a number of new bifurcation structures that can be observed when a multi-dimensional period-doubling system is subjected to a periodic forcing. We show how multi-layered tori arise through transverse period-doubling bifurcations of the resonant saddle and node cycles, and how these multi-layered tori transform into period-doubled ergodic tori through sets of saddle-node bifurcations.     

一类可变禁区的不连续系统的加周期分岔

研究了一类可变禁区不连续系统的加周期分岔行为, 发现由可变禁区导致不同类型的加周期分岔. 研究表明, 系统的迭代轨道和禁区的上下两个边界均可发生边界碰撞, 从而产生加周期分岔. 基于边界碰撞分岔理论, 定义基本的迭代单元, 解析推导出了相应的分岔曲线, 在全参数空间中给出了不同加周期所出现的范围. 与数值模拟结果比较, 理论分析结果与数值结果高度一致.     

Branching of 2D tori off an equilibrium of a cosymmetric system (codimension-1 bifurcation)

The standard object for vector fields with a nontrivial cosymmetry is a continuous one-parameter family of equilibria. Characteristically, the stability spectrum of equilibrium varies along such a family, though the spectrum always contains a zero point. Consequently, in the general position a family consists of stable and unstable arcs separated by boundary equilibria, which are neutrally stable in the linear approximation. In the present paper the central manifold method and the Lyapunov-Schmidt method are used to investigate the branching bifurcation of invariant two-dimensional tori in cosymmetric systems off a boundary equilibrium whose spectrum contains, besides the requisite point 0, two pairs of purely imaginary eigenvalues. A number of new effects, as compared with the classic case of an isolated equilibrium, are found: the bifurcation studied has codimension 1 (2 for an isolated equilibrium); it is accompanied by a branching bifurcation of a normal limit cycle; and, a stable arc can be created on an unstable arc. (c) 2001 American Institute of Physics.     

Generators of quasiperiodic oscillations with three-dimensional phase space

Considering a family of three-dimensional oscillators originating in the field of radio-engineering, the paper describes three different mechanisms of torus formation. Particular emphasis is paid to a process in which a saddle-node bifurcation eliminates a stable cycle and leaves the system to find a stationary state between a saddle cycle and a pair of equilibrium points of unstable focus/stable node and unstable node/stable focus type.     

混沌吸引子的对称破缺激变

许多非线性动力系统都有某种对称性,在不同情形下可有不同的表现形式,但始终保持其对称的特点.不同对称形式间的转变导致对称破缺分岔或激变.关于非线性动力系统中相空间运动轨道的对称破缺分岔,已有大量研究工作,但绝大多数是指周期或拟周期相轨的对称破缺,偶尔提到对称系统中的混沌相轨也存在“对偶性”.最近,在简谐外激Duffing系统周期轨道对称破缺引发鞍-结分岔的研究中,得到了分岔后由Poincaré映射点间断流构成的图像,其中包括两个稳定周期结点、一个周期鞍点,及其稳定流形与不稳定流形,均较规则.本工作研究了正弦 关键词： 对称破缺 混沌 激变 分形吸引域     

脉冲序列控制电流断续模式Buck变换器的动力学建模与边界碰撞分岔

通过建立一个开关周期内输出电容电荷变化量对应的输出电压变化量, 建立了工作于电感电流断续模式(discontinuous conduction mode, DCM)的脉冲序列(pulse train, PT)控制Buck变换器的近似离散时间模型, 研究了负载电阻及输入电压变化时PT控制DCM Buck变换器的边界碰撞分岔行为. 通过构造相应的迭代映射曲线, 分别分析了不同负载电阻时PT控制DCM Buck变换器的周期1、周期2和周期3运行轨迹的不动点稳定性, 揭示了PT控制DCM Buck变换器在不同周期态时的边界碰撞分岔的形成机理. 研究结果表明, 随参数变化, PT控制DCM Buck变换器始终运行在不同的周期态, 各周期态的切换由边界碰撞分岔引起, 李雅谱诺夫指数始终小于零. 利用PSIM电路仿真软件, 给出了不同负载电阻时的时域波形和相轨图. 实验结果验证了理论分析和仿真结果的正确性, 同时说明了本文动力学建模的可行性.     

基于延时干扰的感应电能传输系统分岔频率输送控制

本文针对感应电能传输系统分岔频率的输送控制问题, 提出一种基于延时干扰的变轨控制方法. 该方法在反馈控制环节中加入一段延时干扰, 通过调节延时参数, 可使系统相轨迹流在各稳定极限环吸引子间自由切换. 文中以原副边均为串联谐振的感应电能传输系统为例, 对该方法的机理及实现方案进行了研究, 并通过仿真和实验验证了其有效性. 论文的研究结果对类似多吸引子分岔行为的输送控制可提供一定的理论参考. 关键词： 感应电能传输 频率分岔 输送控制 延时干扰     

Homoclinic bifurcations leading to the emergence of bursting oscillations in cell models

We present a qualitative analysis of a generic model structure that can simulate the bursting and spiking dynamics of many biological cells. Four different scenarios for the emergence of bursting are described. In this connection a number of theorems are stated concerning the relation between the phase portraits of the fast subsystem and the global behavior of the full model. It is emphasized that the onset of bursting involves the formation of a homoclinic orbit that travels along the route of the bursting oscillations and, hence, cannot be explained in terms of bifurcations in the fast subsystem. In one of the scenarios, the bursting oscillations arise in a homoclinic bifurcation in which the one-dimensional (1D) stable manifold of a saddle point becomes attracting to its whole 2D unstable manifold. This type of homoclinic bifurcation, and the complex behavior that it can produce, have not previously been examined in detail. We derive a 2D flow-defined map for this situation and show how the map transforms a disk-shaped cross-section of the flow into an annulus. Preliminary investigations of the stable dynamics of this map show that it produces an interesting cascade of alternating pitchfork and boundary collision bifurcations. Received 24 June 1999 and Received in final form 17 February 2000     

A simple model of chaotic advection and scattering

In this work, we study a blinking vortex-uniform stream map. This map arises as an idealized, but essential, model of time-dependent convection past concentrated vorticity in a number of fluid systems. The map exhibits a rich variety of phenomena, yet it is simple enough so as to yield to extensive analytical investigation. The map's dynamics is dominated by the chaotic scattering of fluid particles near the vortex core. Studying the paths of fluid particles, it is seen that quantities such as residence time distributions and exit-vs-entry positions scale in self-similar fashions. A bifurcation is identified in which a saddle fixed point is created upstream at infinity. The homoclinic tangle formed by the transversely intersecting stable and unstable manifolds of this saddle is principally responsible for the observed self-similarity. Also, since the model is simple enough, various other properties are quantified analytically in terms of the circulation strength, stream velocity, and blinking period. These properties include: entire hierarchies of fixed points and periodic points, the parameter values at which these points undergo conservative period-doubling bifurcations, the structure of the unstable manifolds of the saddle fixed and periodic points, and the detailed structure of the resonance zones inside the vortex core region. A connection is made between a weakly dissipative version of our map and the Ikeda map from nonlinear optics. Finally, we discuss the essential ingredients that our model contains for studying how chaotic scattering induced by time-dependent flow past vortical structures produces enhanced diffusivities. (c) 1995 American Institute of Physics.     

Asymmetric coexisting bifurcations and multi-stability in an asymmetric memristive diode-bridge-based Jerk circuit

An asymmetric memristive diode-bridge (MDB) emulator is raised to imitate the asymmetric volt-ampere characteristic of a physical memristor. Then, an asymmetric MDB-based Jerk circuit is built and its state equation is derived, upon which the theoretical analysis, MATLAB-based numerical simulations, and hardware measurements are executed to reveal the asymmetric coexisting bifurcations and the phenomenon of multi-stability. The memristive Jerk circuit has three equilibrium points of a pair nontrivial equilibrium points of asymmetric unstable saddle-foci and a zero equilibrium point of unstable saddle-focus, which leads to the occurrence of asymmetric coexisting bifurcations and asymmetric local attraction basins. The asymmetrical bifurcations are numerically disclosed by 1-D/2-D bifurcation plots, Lyapunov spectrum, and phase plane trajectories. Multi-stability with asymmetric coexisting attractors under two sets of system parameters are demonstrated as examples by local attraction basins and phase plane trajectories. Thereafter, experimental circuit prototype employing discrete components is manually welded and hardware measurements are executed to validate the numerical simulations.     

On a special type of border-collision bifurcations occurring at infinity

In piecewise-smooth dynamical systems, the regions of existence of a periodic orbit are typically parameter sub-spaces confined by border-collision bifurcations of this orbit. We demonstrate that additionally to the usual border-collision bifurcations occurring at finite points in the state space there exist also border-collision bifurcations occurring at infinity.     

非线性电路通向混沌的演化过程

给出了四阶非线性电路通向复杂性的两种演化模式,指出这两种模式与三个共存的平衡点有关.在第一种模式中,不稳定的平衡点由Hopf分岔导致了稳定的周期运动,经过倍周期分岔通向混沌,其所有的吸引子都保持对称结构;而在第二种模式中,另两个平衡点由Hopf分岔产生相互对称的极限环,并分别导致了两个混沌吸引子,其分岔过程步调一致,而且所有的吸引子都相互对称.随着参数的变化,这两个混沌吸引子相互作用形成一个扩大的混沌吸引子,导致与第一种分岔模式中定性一致的混沌运动.     

Logarithmic correction to the probability of capture for dissipatively perturbed Hamiltonian systems

Hamiltonian systems are analyzed with a double homoclinic orbit connecting a saddle to itself. Competing centers exist. A small dissipative perturbation causes the stable and unstable manifolds of the saddle point to break apart. The stable manifolds of the saddle point are the boundaries of the basin of attraction for the competing attractors. With small dissipation, the boundaries of the basins of attraction are known to be tightly wound and spiral-like. Small changes in the initial condition can alter the equilibrium to which the solution is attracted. Near the unperturbed homoclinic orbit, the boundary of the basin of attraction consists of a large sequence of nearly homoclinic orbits surrounded by close approaches to the saddle point. The slow passage through an unperturbed homoclinic orbit (separatrix) is determined by the change in the value of the Hamiltonian from one saddle approach to the next. The probability of capture can be asymptotically approximated using this change in the Hamiltonian. The well-known leading-order change of the Hamiltonian from one saddle approach to the next is due to the effect of the perturbation on the homoclinic orbit. A logarithmic correction to this change of the Hamiltonian is shown to be due to the effect of the perturbation on the saddle point itself. It is shown that the probability of capture can be significantly altered from the well-known leading-order probability for Hamiltonian systems with double homoclinic orbits of the twisted type, an example of which is the Hamiltonian system corresponding to primary resonance. Numerical integration of the perturbed Hamiltonian system is used to verify the accuracy of the analytic formulas for the change in the Hamiltonian from one saddle approach to the next. (c) 1995 American Institute of Physics.