A four-wing chaotic attractor generated from a new 3-D quadratic autonomous system

This paper introduces a new 3-D quadratic autonomous system, which can generate two coexisting single-wing chaotic attractors and a pair of diagonal double-wing chaotic attractors. More importantly, the system can generate a four-wing chaotic attractor with very complicated topological structures over a large range of parameters. Some basic dynamical behaviors and the compound structure of the new 3-D system are investigated. Detailed bifurcation analysis illustrates the evolution processes of the system among two coexisting sinks, two coexisting periodic orbits, two coexisting single-wing chaotic attractors, major and minor diagonal double-wing chaotic attractors, and a four-wing chaotic attractor. Poincaré-map analysis shows that the system has extremely rich dynamics. The physical existence of the four-wing chaotic attractor is verified by an electronic circuit. Finally, spectral analysis shows that the system has an extremely broad frequency bandwidth, which is very desirable for engineering applications such as secure communications.     

Bifurcations and chaos of a discrete mathematical model for respiratory process in bacterial culture

The discrete mathematical model for the respiratory process in bacterial culture obtained by Euler method is investigated. The conditions of existence for flip bifurcation and Hopf bifurcation are derived by using center manifold theorem and bifurcation theory, condition of existence of chaos in the sense of Marotto＇s definition of chaos is proved. The bifurcation diagrams, Lyapunov exponents and phase portraits are given for different parameters of the model, and the fractal dimension of chaotic attractor was also calculated. The numerical simulation results confirm the theoretical analysis and also display the new and complex dynamical behaviors compared with the continuous model. In particular~ we found that the new chaotic attractor, and new types of two or four coexisting chaotic attractors, and two coexisting invariant torus.     

Steady-state,self-oscillating and chaotic behavior of a PID controlled nonlinear servomechanism by using Bogdanov–Takens and Andronov–Poincaré–Hopf bifurcations

This paper analyzes a controlled servomechanism with feedback and a cubic nonlinearity by means of the Bogdanov–Takens and Andronov–Poincaré–Hopf bifurcations, from which steady-state, self-oscillating and chaotic behaviors will be investigated using the center manifold theorem. The system controller is formed by a Proportional plus Integral plus Derivative action (PID) that allows to stabilize and drive to a prescribed set point a body connected to the shaft of a DC motor. The Bogdanov–Takens bifurcation is analyzed through the second Lyapunov stability method and the harmonic-balance method, whereas the first Lyapunov value is used for the Andronov–Poincaré–Hopf bifurcation. On the basis of the results deduced from the bifurcation analysis, we show a procedure to select the parameters of the PID controller so that an arbitrary steady-state position of the servomechanism can be reached even in presence of noise. We also show how chaotic behavior can be obtained by applying a harmonical external torque to the device in self-oscillating regime. The advantage of achieving chaotic behavior is that it can be used so that the system reaches a set point inside a strange attractor with a small control effort. The analytical calculations have been verified through detailed numerical simulations.     

A new butterfly-shaped attractor of Lorenz-like system

In this letter a new butterfly-shaped chaotic attractor is reported. Some basic dynamical properties, such as Poincare mapping, Lyapunov exponents, fractal dimension, continuous spectrum and chaotic dynamical behaviors of the new chaotic system are studied. Furthermore, we clarify that the chaotic attractors of the system is a compound structure obtained by merging together two simple attractors through a mirror operation.     

Bifurcations of forced oscillators with fuzzy uncertainties by the generalized cell mapping method

In this paper, bifurcations in dynamical systems with fuzzy uncertainties are studied by means of the fuzzy generalized cell mapping (FGCM) method. A bifurcation parameter is modeled as a fuzzy set with a triangular membership function. We first study a boundary crisis resulting from a collision of a fuzzy chaotic attractor with a fuzzy saddle on the basin boundary. The fuzzy chaotic attractor together with its basin of attraction is eradicated as the fuzzy control parameter reaches a critical point. We also show that a saddle-node bifurcation is caused by the collision of a fuzzy period-one attractor with a fuzzy saddle on the basin boundary. The fuzzy attractor together with its basin of attraction suddenly disappears as the fuzzy parameter passes through a critical value.     

Optimal pulse fishing policy in stage-structured models with birth pulses

In this paper, we propose exploited models with stage structure for the dynamics in a fish population for which periodic birth pulse and pulse fishing occur at different fixed time. Using the stroboscopic map, we obtain an exact cycle of system, and obtain the threshold conditions for its stability. Bifurcation diagrams are constructed with the birth rate (or pulse fishing time or harvesting effort) as the bifurcation parameter, and these are observed to display complex dynamic behaviors, including chaotic bands with period windows, period-doubling, multi-period-halving and incomplete period-doubling bifurcation, pitch-fork and tangent bifurcation, non-unique dynamics (meaning that several attractors or attractor and chaos coexist) and attractor crisis. This suggests that birth pulse and pulse fishing provide a natural period or cyclicity that make the dynamical behaviors more complex. Moreover, we show that the pulse fishing has a strong impact on the persistence of the fish population, on the volume of mature fish stock and on the maximum annual-sustainable yield. An interesting result is obtained that, after the birth pulse, the population can sustain much higher harvesting effort if the mature fish is removed as early as possible.     

A hyperchaotic system from a chaotic system with one saddle and two stable node-foci

This paper presents a 4D new hyperchaotic system which is constructed by a linear controller to a 3D new chaotic system with one saddle and two stable node-foci. Some complex dynamical behaviors such as ultimate boundedness, chaos and hyperchaos of the simple 4D autonomous system are investigated and analyzed. The corresponding bounded hyperchaotic and chaotic attractor is first numerically verified through investigating phase trajectories, Lyapunove exponents, bifurcation path, analysis of power spectrum and Poincaré projections. Finally, two complete mathematical characterizations for 4D Hopf bifurcation are rigorous derived and studied.     

Complex dynamics in Chen’s system

This paper characterizes some complex dynamics of Chen’s system. Some conditions of existence for pitchfork bifurcation and Hopf bifurcation are derived by using bifurcation theory and the center manifold theorem. Numerical simulation results not only show consistence with the theoretical analysis but also display some new and interesting dynamical behaviors including homoclinic bifurcation and the coexistence of two stable limit cycles and one chaotic attractor as well as some periodic solutions emerging from Hopf bifurcation but ending in homoclinic bifurcation, which are different from those reported in the literature before. All these show that Chen’s system has very rich nonlinear dynamics.     

Crisis transitions in excitable cell models

It is believed that sudden changes both in the size of chaotic attractor and in the number of unstable periodic orbits on chaotic attractor are sufficient for interior crisis. In this paper, some interior crisis phenomena were discovered in a class of physically realizable dissipative dynamical systems. These systems represent the oscillatory activity of membrane potentials observed in excitable cells such as neuronal cells, pancreatic β-cells, and cardiac cells. We examined the occurrence of interior crises in these systems by two means: (i) constructing bifurcation diagrams and (ii) calculating the number of unstable periodic orbits on chaotic attractor. Bifurcation diagrams were obtained by numerically integrating the simultaneous differential equations which simulate the activity of excitable membranes. These bifurcation diagrams have shown an apparent crisis activity. We also demonstrate in terms of the associated Poincaré maps that the number of unstable periodic orbits embedded in a chaotic attractor suddenly increases or decreases at the crisis.     

Multiple attractors and crisis route to chaos in a model food-chain

An attempt has been made to identify the mechanism, which is responsible for the existence of chaos in narrow parameter range in a realistic ecological model food-chain. Analytical and numerical studies of a three species food-chain model similar to a situation likely to be seen in terrestrial ecosystems has been carried out. The study of the model food chain suggests that the existence of chaos in narrow parameter ranges is caused by the crisis-induced sudden death of chaotic attractors. Varying one of the critical parameters in its range while keeping all the others constant, one can monitor the changes in the dynamical behaviour of the system, thereby fixing the regimes in which the system exhibits chaotic dynamics. The computed bifurcation diagrams and basin boundary calculations indicate that crisis is the underlying factor which generates chaotic dynamics in this model food-chain. We investigate sudden qualitative changes in chaotic dynamical behaviour, which occur at a parameter value a₁=1.7804 at which the chaotic attractor destroyed by boundary crisis with an unstable periodic orbit created by the saddle-node bifurcation. Multiple attractors with riddled basins and fractal boundaries are also observed. If ecological systems of interacting species do indeed exhibit multiple attractors etc., the long term dynamics of such systems may undergo vast qualitative changes following epidemics or environmental catastrophes due to the system being pushed into the basin of a new attractor by the perturbation. Coupled with stochasticity, such complex behaviours may render such systems practically unpredictable.     

The evolution of a novel four-dimensional autonomous system: Among 3-torus, limit cycle, 2-torus, chaos and hyperchaos

In this paper, a novel four-dimensional autonomous system in which each equation contains a quadratic cross-product term is constructed. It exhibits extremely rich dynamical behaviors, including 3-tori (triple tori), 2-tori (quasi-periodic), limit cycles (periodic), chaotic and hyperchaotic attractors. In particular, we observe 3-torus phenomena, which have been rarely reported in four-dimensional autonomous systems in previous work. With the parameter r varying in quite a wide range, the evolution process of the system begins from 3-tori, and after going through a series of periodic, quasi-periodic and chaotic attractors in so many different shapes coming into being alternately, it evolves into hyperchaos, finally it degenerates to periodic attractor. Moreover, when the system is hyperchaotic, its two positive Lyapunov exponents are much larger than those of the hyperchaotic systems already reported, especially the largest Lyapunov exponents. We also observe a chaotic attractor of a very special shape. The complex dynamical behaviors of the system are further investigated by means of Lyapunov exponents spectrum, bifurcation diagram and phase portraits.     

Optimizing the dynamics of a two-cell DC–DC buck converter by time delayed feedback control

A study of the dynamical behavior of a two-cell DC–DC buck converter under a digital time delayed feedback control (TDFC) is presented. Various numerical simulations and dynamical aspects of this system are illustrated in the time domain and in the parameter space. Without TDFC, the system may present many undesirable behaviors such as sub-harmonics and chaotic oscillations. TDFC is able to widen the stability range of the system. Optimum values of parameters giving rise to fast response while maintaining stable periodic behavior are given in closed form. However, it is detected that in a certain region of the parameter space, the stabilized periodic orbit may coexist with a chaotic attractor. Boundary between basins of attraction are obtained by means of numerical simulations.     

A periodically forced,piecewise linear system,Part II: The fragmentation mechanism of strange attractors and grazing

In the first part of this work, the local singularity of non-smooth dynamical systems was discussed and the criteria for the grazing bifurcation were presented mathematically. In this part, the fragmentation mechanism of strange attractors in non-smooth dynamical systems is investigated. The periodic motion transition is completed through grazing. The concepts for the initial and final grazing, switching manifolds are introduced for six basic mappings. The fragmentation of strange attractors in non-smooth dynamical systems is described mathematically. The fragmentation mechanism of the strange attractor for such a non-smooth dynamical system is qualitatively discussed. Such a fragmentation of the strange attractor is illustrated numerically. The criteria and topological structures for the fragmentation of the strange attractor need to be further developed as in hyperbolic strange attractors. The fragmentation of the strange attractors extensively exists in non-smooth dynamical systems, which will help us better understand chaotic motions in non-smooth dynamical systems.     

A new hyperchaotic system and its synchronization

In this paper, a four-dimensional (4D) continuous autonomous hyperchaotic system is introduced and analyzed. This hyperchaotic system is constructed by adding a linear controller to the 3D autonomous chaotic system with a reverse butterfly-shape attractor. Some of its basic dynamical properties, such as Lyapunov exponents, Poincare section, bifurcation diagram and the periodic orbits evolving into chaotic, hyperchaotic dynamical behavior by varying parameter d are studied. Furthermore, the full state hybrid projective synchronization (FSHPS) of new hyperchaotic system with unknown parameters including the unknown coefficients of nonlinear terms is studied by using adaptive control. Numerical simulations are presented to show the effective of the proposed chaos synchronization scheme.     

Attractors of reaction‐diffusion systems in unbounded domains and their spatial complexity

The nonlinear reaction‐diffusion system in an unbounded domain is studied. It is proven that, under some natural assumptions on the nonlinear term and on the diffusion matrix, this system possesses a global attractor ?? in the corresponding phase space. Since the dimension of the attractor happens to be infinite, we study its Kolmogorov's ?‐entropy. Upper and lower bounds of this entropy are obtained. Moreover, we give a more detailed study of the attractor for the spatially homogeneous RDE in ?ⁿ. In this case, a group of spatial shifts acts on the attractor. In order to study the spatial complexity of the attractor, we interpret this group as a dynamical system (with multidimensional “time” if n > 1) acting on a phase space ??. It is proven that the dynamical system thus obtained is chaotic and has infinite topological entropy. In order to clarify the nature of this chaos, we suggest a new model dynamical system that generalizes the symbolic dynamics to the case of the infinite entropy and construct the homeomorphic (and even Lipschitz‐continuous) embedding of this system into the spatial shifts on the attractor. Finally, we consider also the temporal evolution of the spatially chaotic structures in the attractor and prove that the spatial chaos is preserved under this evolution. © 2003 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.     

A novel chaotic attractor

In this letter, a novel chaotic attractor is reported. Some basic dynamical properties, such as Lyapunov exponents, fractal dimension, Poincare mapping, the continuous spectrum and chaotic behavior of this new transverse butterfly attractor are studied. Meanwhile, the forming mechanism of its compound structure obtained by merging together two simple attractors after performing one mirror operation has been investigated by detailed numerical as well as theoretical analysis. Furthermore, the complex chaotic dynamical behavior of the system has been also proofed by experimental simulation of a designed electronic oscillator based on EWB.     

Exploring action potential initiation in neurons exposed to DC electric fields through dynamical analysis of conductance-based model

Noninvasive direct current (DC) electric stimulation of central nervous system is today a promising therapeutic option to alleviate the symptoms of a number of neurological disorders. Despite widespread use of this noninvasive brain modulation technique, a generalizable explanation of its biophysical basis has not been described which seriously restricts its application and development. This paper investigated the dynamical behaviors of Hodgkin’s three classes of neurons exposed to DC electric field based on a conductance-based neuron model. With phase plane and bifurcation analysis, the different responses of each class of neuron to the same stimulation are shown to derive from distinct spike initiating dynamics. Under the effects of negative DC electric field, class 1 neuron generates repetitive spike through a saddle-node on invariant circle (SNIC) bifurcation, while it ceases this repetitive behavior through a Hopf bifurcation; Class 2 neuron generates repetitive spike through a Hopf bifurcation, meanwhile it ceases this repetitive behavior also by a Hopf bifurcation; Class 3 neuron can generate single spike through a quasi-separatrix-crossing (QSC) at first, then it generates repetitive spike through a Hopf bifurcation, while it ceases this repetitive behavior through a SNIC bifurcation. Furthermore, three classes of neurons’ spiking frequency f–electric field E (f–E) curves all have parabolic shape. Our results highlight the effects of external DC electric field on neuronal activity from the biophysical modeling point of view. It can contribute to the application and development of noninvasive DC brain modulation technique.     

Anti-control of Hopf bifurcation in the new chaotic system with two stable node-foci

In order to further understand a complex 3D dynamical system showing strange chaotic attractors with two stable node-foci near Hopf bifurcation point, we propose nonlinear control scheme to the system and the controlled system, depending on five parameters, can exhibit codimension one, two, and three Hopf bifurcations in a much larger parameter regain. The control strategy used keeps the equilibrium structure of the chaotic system and can be applied to degenerate Hopf bifurcation at the desired location with preferred stability.     

Bifurcation and chaos in a discrete genetic toggle switch system

A discrete genetic toggle switch system obtained by Euler method is first investigated. The conditions of existence for fold bifurcation and flip bifurcation are derived by using center manifold theorem and bifurcation theory. The numerical simulations, including bifurcation diagrams, phase portraits, and computation of Lyapunov exponents, not only show the consistence with the theoretical analysis but also exhibit the rich and complex dynamical behavior. We show the period 3 to 13 windows in different chaotic regions, period-doubling bifurcation or inverse period-doubling bifurcation from period-2 to 12 orbits leading to chaos, different kind of interior crisis and boundary crisis, intermittency behavior, chaotic set, chaotic non-attracting set, coexistence of period points with invariant cycles, and so on. The influence of the amplitude and frequency of excitable forcing on the system are also first considered by using numerical simulation. A different type of quasiperiodic orbits, jumping behaviors of quasiperiodic set from one set to another set, and the processes from quasiperiodic orbits to strange non-chaotic attractor are found.