Anticipating the response of excitable systems driven by random forcing

We study the regime of anticipated synchronization in unidirectionally coupled model neurons subject to a common external aperiodic forcing that makes their behavior unpredictable. We show numerically and by analog hardware electronic circuits that, under appropriate coupling conditions, the pulses fired by the slave neuron anticipate (i.e., predict) the pulses fired by the master neuron. This anticipated synchronization occurs even when the common external forcing is white noise.     

一个改进恒Lyapunov指数谱混沌系统的电路实现与同步控制

基于提出的恒Lyapunov指数谱混沌系统,通过将系统中的参数进行剥离,得到一个改进型的恒Lyapunov指数谱混沌系统.该混沌系统存在三个重要的特性：双参数恒Lyapunov指数谱、存在全局线性调幅参数和倒相参数.通过Lyapunov指数谱与分岔图结合理论证明与推理,揭示了该新系统存在的上述动力学特征.构建实验电路,实现了改进混沌系统,物理实验验证了新系统的混沌行为.最后,利用单变量反馈控制方法实现了新系统的同步控制,通过物理实验验证了新系统同步控制的条件. 关键词： 改进恒Lyapunov指数谱混沌系统 电路实现 同步控制     

离散混沌电路的实现

利用基本的电子元件和基本的电路搭建成一维Logistic离散电路和二维Henon离散电路．该电路将模拟器件和数字器件巧妙结合，电路结构简单．通过模拟实验展示了混沌运动的基本特点和规律，实验结果与理论结果一致．     

一个新的三维混沌系统的分析、电路实现及同步

中心流形理论提供了一个将高维系统降维研究的方法，应用该理论研究了一个新的混沌系统的基本特性，给出中心流形上流方程，分析这个新的混沌系统的叉式分岔.通过构建电路实现了该混沌系统,从而验证了系统的混沌行为，证实了混沌吸引子的存在.同时说明了由于电路信号频率与数值信号频率的不同所带来的数值仿真与物理实现之间在应用上有着重要区别.最后利用单变量反馈控制方法实现了新系统的同步控制，并给出了完整的同步实现电路. 关键词： 三维混沌系统 中心流形 电路实现 同步     

Populations of coupled electrochemical oscillators

Experiments were carried out on arrays of chaotic electrochemical oscillators to which global coupling, periodic forcing, and feedback were applied. The global coupling converts a very weakly coupled set of chaotic oscillators to a synchronized state with sufficiently large values of coupling strength; at intermediate values both intermittent and stable chaotic cluster states occur. Cluster formation and synchronization were also obtained by applying feedback and forcing to a moderately coupled base state. The three cases differ, however, in other details. The feedback and forcing also produce periodic cluster states and more than two clusters. Configurations of two (chaotic) clusters and two, three, or four (periodic) clusters were observed. (c) 2002 American Institute of Physics.     

Dynamical mechanism of anticipating synchronization in excitable systems

We analyze the phenomenon of anticipating synchronization of two excitable systems with unidirectional delayed coupling which are subject to the same external forcing. We demonstrate for different paradigms of excitable system that, due to the coupling, the excitability threshold for the slave system is always lower than that for the master. As a consequence the two systems respond to a common external forcing with different response times. This allows us to explain in a simple way the mechanism behind the phenomenon of anticipating synchronization in excitable systems.     

基于忆阻器的数模混合随机数发生器

数字方法实现的混沌随机数发生器存在有限字长效应, 无法保证随机数良好的统计特性. 本文构建了一类包含最少模拟器件的新数模混合系统, 分析了混合系统的非线性动力学行为. 利用现场可编程逻辑门阵列和一阶广义忆阻器实现了复杂混沌映射, 克服了有限字长效应, 构造了稳定的高速混沌随机数发生器, 可以产生100 Gbit/s以上速率的随机数. 研究表明, 数模混合系统的混沌性对元件参数变化不敏感. 混合系统易于集成在图像加密、保密通信和雷达波形设计等应用系统中.     

A simple Lorenz circuit and its radio frequency implementation

A remarkably simple electronic circuit design based on the chaotic Lorenz system is described. The circuit consists of just two active nonlinear elements (high-speed analog multipliers) and a few passive linear elements. Experimental implementations of the circuit exhibit the classic butterfly attractor and the hysteretic transition from steady state to chaos observed in the Lorenz equations. The simplicity of the circuit makes it suitable for radio frequency applications. The power spectrum of the observed oscillations displays a peak frequency as high as 930 kHz and significant power beyond 1 MHz.     

Enhance sensitivity to illumination and synchronization in light-dependent neurons

When a phototube is activated to connect a neural circuit, the output voltage becomes sensitive to external illumination because the photocurrent across the phototube can be controlled by external electromagnetic wave. The channel currents from different branch circuits have different impacts on the outputs voltage of the neural circuit. In this paper, a phototube is incorporated into different branch circuits in a simple neural circuit, and then a light-controlled neuron is obtained for further nonlinear analysis. Indeed, the phototube is considered as exciting source when it is activated by external illumination, and two kinds of light-sensitive neurons are obtained when the phototube is connected to capacitor or induction coil, respectively. Electric synapse coupling is applied to detect possible synchronization between two functional neurons, and the energy consumption along the coupling channel via resistor is estimated. The analog circuits for the two kinds of light-sensitive neurons are supplied for further confirmation by using Multisim. It is found that two light-sensitive neurons and neural circuits can be synchronized by taming the coupling intensity carefully. It provides possible clues to understand the synchronization mechanism for eyes and artificial sensors which are sensitive to illumination. Finally, a section for open problems is supplied for further investigation about its collective behaviors in the network with/without synapse coupling.     

Proposing an efficient algorithm for designing universal nanoelectronic molecular logic gates

In today's world, there are still demands for minimising the dimensions of electronic circuits, the result of which is designing nanoelectronic circuits and very small molecular gates and switches. The point which causes trouble in this design is high impact of different parameters on the performance of circuit. Despite the suggestion of simple electronic circuits and different gates, impact of parameters like length of molecule, angle between different atoms, coupling situation of electrodes to molecule, the type of atoms used in a molecule's structure and other cases has made their development almost impossible. In this paper, there was an attempt to study previous works in order to, first, mention the effects of different conditions on circuit performance and, second, present an algorithm for designing gates so as to minimise the effects of these parameters on circuit performance.     

Global properties in an experimental realization of time-delayed feedback control with an unstable control loop

We demonstrate by electronic circuit experiments the feasibility of an unstable control loop to stabilize torsion-free orbits by time-delayed feedback control. Corresponding analytical normal form calculations and numerical simulations reveal a severe dependence of the basin of attraction on the particular coupling scheme of the control force. Such theoretical predictions are confirmed by the experiments and emphasize the importance of the coupling scheme for the global control performance.     

Chaotic Dynamics in an Electronic Model of a Genetic Network

We consider dynamics in a class of piecewise-linear ordinary differential equations and in an electronic circuit that model genetic networks. In these models, gene activity varies continuously in time. However, as in Boolean or discrete-time switching networks, gene activity is driven high or low based only on whether the activities of the regulating genes are high or low (i.e., above or below certain thresholds). Depending on the “regulatory logic”, these models can exhibit simple dynamics, like stable fixed points or oscillation, or chaotic dynamics. The observed qualitative and quantitative differences between the dynamics in the idealized equations and the dynamics in the electronic circuit lead us to focus attention on the analysis of the dynamics as a function of parameter values. We propose new techniques for solving the inverse problem – the problem of inferring the regulatory logic and parameters from time series data. We also give new symbolic and statistical methods for characterizing dynamics in these networks.     

A novel four-wing chaotic attractor generated from a three-dimensional quadratic autonomous system

This paper presents a new 3D quadratic autonomous chaotic system which contains five system parameters and three quadratic cross-product terms, and the system can generate a single four-wing chaotic attractor with wide parameter ranges. Through theoretical analysis, the Hopf bifurcation processes are proved to arise at certain equilibrium points. Numerical bifurcation analysis shows that the system has many interesting complex dynamical behaviours; the system trajectory can evolve to a chaotic attractor from a periodic orbit or a fixed point as the proper parameter varies. Finally, an analog electronic circuit is designed to physically realize the chaotic system; the existence of four-wing chaotic attractor is verified by the analog circuit realization.     

A programmable electronic circuit for modelling CO2 laser dynamics

We introduce a programmable electronic circuit implementing the rich dynamics of CO2 laser models. The design and the implementation of the circuit are accomplished by using a programmable analog device, which permits an experimental characterization of the laser dynamics. The experimental results shown in the paper demonstrate that the circuit exhibits homoclinic chaos typical of CO2 laser with feedback modulation of cavity losses. Moreover, experimental results showing that noise regularizes the dynamical time scales of the system are reported.     

Single-end vibration sensor based on an over-coupled fiber-loop reflector

A single-end fiber-optic vibration sensor based on an over-coupled fused-fiber loop reflector is demonstrated for the first time, which takes advantage of the change of the reflectivity spectrum when the coupling region is applied with a different strain. The interrogation system is designed for the sensor, and consists of a low-cost laser diode, a 3-dB fiber coupler, a detector, and an electronic circuit to the process signal. The output of the sensor system when the sensor is applied with vibration is shown. The system is simple and low cost, and, thus, feasible for practical use.     

基于有源广义忆阻的无感混沌电路研究

采用常见元器件等效实现一个广义忆阻器, 进而制作出一个电路特性可靠的非线性电路, 有助于忆阻混沌电路的非线性现象的实验展示及其所产生的混沌信号的实际工程应用. 基于忆阻二极管桥电路, 构建了一种无接地限制的、易物理实现的一阶有源广义忆阻模拟器; 由该模拟器并联电容后与RC桥式振荡器线性耦合, 实现了一种无电感元件的忆阻混沌电路; 建立了无感忆阻混沌电路的动力学模型, 开展了相应的耗散性、平衡点、稳定性和动力学行为等分析. 结果表明, 无感忆阻混沌电路在相空间中存在分布2个不稳定非零鞍焦的耗散区和包含1个不稳定原点鞍点的非耗散区; 当元件参数改变时, 无感忆阻混沌电路有着共存分岔模式和共存吸引子等非线性行为. 研制了实验电路, 该电路结构简单、易实际制作, 实验测量和数值仿真两者结果一致, 验证了理论分析的有效性.     

Active noise control in a duct by an analog neural network circuit

Conventional active noise control (ANC) in ducts has been realized with digital signal processing. The physical size of the conventional ANC systems is usually large owing to the signal processing interval, and the cost of the system depends on the price of the digital signal processor (DSP). This paper proposes a new ANC system with an analog neural network circuit, which will process signals in short time periods without DSP. The proposed neural network circuit has a simple structure consisting of analog multipliers and an integrator, and we simulated the performance of the circuit by HSPICE. We also fabricated a circuit connected to a real duct and confirmed operation of the proposed ANC system.     

Nonlinear dynamics extraction for time-delay systems using modular neural networks synchronization and prediction

It is shown that the nonlinear dynamics of chaotic time-delay systems can be reconstructed using a new type of neural network with two modules: one for nonfeedback part with input data delayed by the embedding time, and a second one for the feedback part with input data delayed by the feedback time. The method is applied to both simulated and experimental data from an electronic analog circuit of the Mackey–Glass system. Better results are obtained for the modular than for feedforward neural networks for the same number of parameters. It is found that the complexity of the neural network model required to reconstruct nonlinear dynamics does not increase with the delay time. Synchronization between the data and the model with diffusive coupling is also achieved. We have also shown by iterating the model from the present point that the dynamics can be predicted with a forecast horizon larger than the feedback delay time.     

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电控单元强电磁安全威胁分析及电源防护研究

强电磁脉冲通过场线耦合的方式,对车辆电子控制系统造成了严重的电磁安全威胁,影响车辆机动性能的发挥。基于典型车辆平台,分析了电控单元在强电磁脉冲环境下的效应机理,开展了整车平台的宽带强电磁脉冲辐照试验,分析了车辆平台发动机系统运行状态与电控单元电源线上耦合脉冲电压之间的关系。试验结果表明宽带电磁脉冲通过电源线缆对车辆电控单元造成干扰效应,导致发动机熄火。根据分析结果,对电控单元直流电源进行了多级防护电路设计,通过切断电磁脉冲能量传输路径的方式实现电磁安全防护,并验证了防护电路的有效性。