The dynamics of a memristor-based Rulkov neuron with fractional-order difference

The exploration of the memristor model in the discrete domain is a fascinating hotspot. The electromagnetic induction on neurons has also begun to be simulated by some discrete memristors. However, most of the current investigations are based on the integer-order discrete memristor, and there are relatively few studies on the form of fractional order. In this paper, a new fractional-order discrete memristor model with prominent nonlinearity is constructed based on the Caputo fractional-order difference operator. Furthermore, the dynamical behaviors of the Rulkov neuron under electromagnetic radiation are simulated by introducing the proposed discrete memristor. The integer-order and fractional-order peculiarities of the system are analyzed through the bifurcation graph, the Lyapunov exponential spectrum, and the iterative graph. The results demonstrate that the fractional-order system has more abundant dynamics than the integer one, such as hyper-chaos, multi-stable and transient chaos. In addition, the complexity of the system in the fractional form is evaluated by the means of the spectral entropy complexity algorithm and consequences show that it is affected by the order of the fractional system. The feature of fractional difference lays the foundation for further research and application of the discrete memristor and the neuron map in the future.     

一个分数阶忆阻器模型及其简单串联电路的特性

忆阻器是具有时间记忆特性的非线性电阻. 经典HP TiO₂忆阻器模型的忆阻值为此前通过忆阻器电流的时间积分, 即记忆没有损失. 而最近研究证实HP TiO₂ 线性忆阻器掺杂层厚度不能等于零或者器件整体厚度, 导致器件的记忆有损失. 基于此发现, 本文首先提出了一个阶数介于0 与1间的分数阶HP TiO₂ 线性忆阻器模型, 研究了当受到周期外激励时, 分数阶导数的阶数对其忆阻值动态范围和输出电压动态幅值的影响规律, 推导出了磁滞旁瓣面积的计算公式. 结果表明, 分数阶导数阶数对磁滞回线的形状及所围成区域面积有重要影响. 特别地, 在外激频率大于1时, 分数阶忆阻器的记忆强度达到最大. 然后讨论了此分数阶忆阻器与电容或电感串联组成的单口网络的伏安特性. 结果表明, 在周期激励驱动时, 随着分数阶导数阶数的变化, 此分数阶忆阻器与电容的串联电路呈现出纯电容电路与忆阻电路的转换, 而它与电感的串联电路则呈现出纯电感电路与忆阻电路的转换.     

Control of firing activities in thermosensitive neuron by activating excitatory autapse

Temperature has distinct influence on the activation of ion channels and the excitability of neurons, and careful change in temperature can induce possible mode transition in the neural activities. The formation and development of autapse connection to neuron can enhance its self-adaption to external stimulus, and thus the firing patterns in neuron can be controlled effectively. The autapse is activated to drive a thermosensitive neuron, which is developed from the FitzHugh–Nagumo neural circuit by incorporating a thermistor, and the dynamics in the neural activities is explored to find mode dependence on the temperature and autaptic current. It is found that the firing modes can be controlled by temperature, and the neuron is wakened from resting state to periodic oscillation with the increase of temperature. Furthermore, the intensity and the intrinsic time delay in the autapse are respectively adjusted to control the neural activities, and it is confirmed that appropriate setting for autaptic current can balance and enhance the temperature effect on the neural activities.     

Transient transition behaviors of fractional-order simplest chaotic circuit with bi-stable locally-active memristor and its ARM-based implementation

This paper proposes a fractional-order simplest chaotic system using a bi-stable locally-active memristor. The characteristics of the memristor and transient transition behaviors of the proposed system are analyzed, and this circuit is implemented digitally using ARM-based MCU. Firstly, the mathematical model of the memristor is designed, which is nonvolatile, locally-active and bi-stable. Secondly, the asymptotical stability of the fractional-order memristive chaotic system is investigated and some sufficient conditions of the stability are obtained. Thirdly, complex dynamics of the novel system are analyzed using phase diagram, Lyapunov exponential spectrum, bifurcation diagram, basin of attractor, and coexisting bifurcation, coexisting attractors are observed. All of these results indicate that this simple system contains the abundant dynamic characteristics. Moreover, transient transition behaviors of the system are analyzed, and it is found that the behaviors of transient chaotic and transient period transition alternately occur. Finally, the hardware implementation of the fractional-order bi-stable locally-active memristive chaotic system using ARM-based STM32F750 is carried out to verify the numerical simulation results.     

Modeling and dynamics of double Hindmarsh-Rose neuron with memristor-based magnetic coupling and time delay

The firing of a neuron model is mainly affected by the following factors:the magnetic field, external forcing current, time delay, etc. In this paper, a new time-delayed electromagnetic field coupled dual Hindmarsh-Rose neuron network model is constructed. A magnetically controlled threshold memristor is improved to represent the self-connected and the coupled magnetic fields triggered by the dynamic change of neuronal membrane potential for the adjacent neurons. Numerical simulation confirms that the coupled magnetic field can activate resting neurons to generate rich firing patterns, such as spiking firings, bursting firings, and chaotic firings, and enable neurons to generate larger firing amplitudes. The study also found that the strength of magnetic coupling in the neural network also affects the number of peaks in the discharge of bursting firing. Based on the existing medical treatment background of mental illness, the effects of time lag in the coupling process against neuron firing are studied. The results confirm that the neurons can respond well to external stimuli and coupled magnetic field with appropriate time delay, and keep periodic firing under a wide range of external forcing current.     

Hindmarsh-Rose混沌神经元自适应同步和参数识别的优化研究

以Hindmarsh-Rose混沌神经元模型为例,讨论了基于自适应同步识别混沌系统多个参数方法的优化问题.在构造的李亚普诺夫函数中引入可调节的增益系数来控制系统同步和参数观测器的暂态过程长短.在应用单个控制器和5个参数观测器来同步和识别Hindmarsh-Rose混沌神经元中5个未知参数时发现最小参数的识别结果出现了振荡而其他参数都能准确识别现象,分析其原因可能在于要识别的目标参数的巨大差异性.通过增加控制器的个数(选择两个控制器)可以克服这个困难.研究发现增益系数太小不能实现完全同步和参数的准确识别,当增益系数太大则延长了识别参数的暂态过程.在恰当的增益系数下可以在比较短的暂态过程下准确识别系统参数.进一步讨论了系统参数发生阶跃变化时系统参数的识别问题,数值计算结果验证了该方法的可靠性和有效性.     

Experimental identification of a comb-shaped chaotic region in multiple parameter spaces simulated by the Hindmarsh–Rose neuron model

A comb-shaped chaotic region has been simulated in multiple two-dimensional parameter spaces using the Hindmarsh-Rose （HR） neuron model in many recent studies, which can interpret almost all of the previously simulated bifurcation processes with chaos in neural firing patterns. In the present paper, a comb-shaped chaotic region in a two- dimensional parameter space was reproduced, which presented different processes of period-adding bifurcations with chaos with changing one parameter and fixed the other parameter at different levels. In the biological experiments, different period-adding bifurcation scenarios with chaos by decreasing the extra-cellular calcium concentration were observed from some neural pacemakers at different levels of extra-cellular 4-aminopyridine concentration and from other pacemakers at different levels of extra-cellular caesium concentration. By using the nonlinear time series analysis method, the determin- istic dynamics of the experimental chaotic firings were investigated. The period-adding bifurcations with chaos observed in the experiments resembled those simulated in the comb-shaped chaotic region using the HR model. The experimental results show that period-adding bifurcations with chaos are preserved in different two-dimensional parameter spaces, which provides evidence of the existence of the comb-shaped chaotic region and a demonstration of the simulation results in dif- ferent two-dimensional parameter spaces in the HR neuron model. The results also present relationships between different firing patterns in two-dimensional parameter spaces.     

分数阶Liu系统与分数阶统一系统中的混沌现象及二者的异结构同步

对近几年提出的Liu混沌系统和统一混沌系统，研究了其分数阶系统的混沌动力学行为，发现低于三阶的两系统均存在混沌吸引子，且存在混沌的最低阶数仅为0.3，并计算了存在混沌时系统的最大Lyapunov指数，证明了混沌的存在性；利用Active控制技术实现了分数阶Liu系统与分数阶Lorenz系统及分数阶Lü系统的异结构同步.理论分析及数值实验都证明了该同步方案的有效性. 关键词： 分数阶Liu系统 分数阶统一系统 混沌 异结构同步     

Circuit implementation of a new hyperchaos in fractional-order system

This paper introduces a new four-dimensional （4D） hyperchaotic system, which has only two quadratic nonlinearity parameters but with a complex topological structure. Some complicated dynamical properties are then investigated in detail by using bifurcations, Poincare mapping, LE spectra. Furthermore, a simple fourth-order electronic circuit is designed for hardware implementation of the 4D hyperchaotic attractors. In particular, a remarkable fractional-order circuit diagram is designed for physically verifying the hyperchaotic attractors existing not only in the integer-order system but also in the fractional-order system with an order as low as 3.6.     

Synchronization in a unified fractional-order chaotic system

In this paper, the synchronization in a unified fractional-order chaotic system is investigated by two methods. One is the frequency-domain method that is analysed by using the Laplace transform theory. The other is the time-domain method that is analysed by using the Lyapunov stability theory. Finally, the numerical simulations are used to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed synchronization methods.     

The conductive mechanisms of a titanium oxide memristor with dopant drift and a tunnel barrier

Nano-scale titanium oxide memristors exhibit complex conductive characteristics, which have already been proved by existing research. One possible reason for this is that more than one mechanism exists, and together they codetermine the conductive behaviors of the memristor. In this paper, we first analyze the theoretical base and conductive process of a memristor, and then propose a compatible circuit model to discuss and simulate the coexistence of the dopant drift and tunnel barrier-based mechanisms. Simulation results are given and compared with the published experimental data to prove the possibility of the coexistence. This work provides a practical model and some suggestions for studying the conductive mechanisms of memristors.     

Horseshoe and entropy in a fractional-order unified system

This paper studies chaotic dynamics in a fractional-order unified system by means of topological horseshoe theory and numerical computation. First it finds four quadrilaterals in a carefully-chosen Poincar'e section, then shows that the corresponding map is semiconjugate to a shift map with four symbols. By estimating the topological entropy of the map and the original time-continuous system, it provides a computer assisted verification on existence of chaos in this system, which is much more convincible than the common method of Lyapunov exponents. This new method can potentially be used in rigorous studies of chaos in such a kind of system. This paper may be a start for proving a given fractional-order differential equation to be chaotic.     

Modified projective synchronization of a fractional-order hyperchaotic system with a single driving variable

In this paper, the modified projective synchronization (MPS) of a fractional-order hyperchaotic system is investigated. We design the response system corresponding to the drive system on the basis of projective synchronization theory, and determine the sufficient condition for the synchronization of the drive system and the response system based on fractional-order stability theory. The MPS of a fractional-order hyperchaotic system is achieved by transmitting a single variable. This scheme reduces the information transmission in order to achieve the synchronization, and extends the applicable scope of MPS. Numerical simulations further demonstrate the feasibility and the effectiveness of the proposed scheme.     

Stability of a linear oscillator with damping force of the fractional-order derivative

It begins with the study of damping representation of a linear vibration system of single degree of freedom (SDOF),from the view point of fractional calculus. By using the idea of stability switch,it shows that the linear term involving the fractional-order derivative of an order between 0 and 2 always acts as a damping force,so that the unique equilibrium is asymp-totically stable. Further,based on the idea of stability switch again,the paper proposes a scheme for determining the stable gain region of a li...     

Characteristics of titanium oxide memristor with coexistence of dopant drift and a tunnel barrier

The recent published experimental data of titanium oxide memristor devices which are tested under the same experi- mental conditions exhibit the strange instability and complexity of these devices. Such undesired characteristics preclude the understanding of the device conductive processes and the memristor-based practical applications. The possibility of the coexistence of dopant drift and tunnel barrier conduction in a memristor provides preliminary explanations for the undesired characteristics. However, current research lacks detailed discussion about the coexistence case. In this paper, dopant drift and tunnel barrier-based theories are first analyzed for studying the relations between parameters and physical variables which affect characteristics of mernristors, and then the influences of each parameter change on the conductive behaviors in the single and coexistence cases of the two mechanisms are simulated and discussed respectively. The simulation results provide further explanations of the complex device conduction. Theoretical methods of eliminating or reducing the coex- istence of the two mechanisms are proposed, in order to increase the stability of the device conduction. This work also provides the support for optimizing the fabrications of memristor devices with excellent performance.     

No-chattering sliding mode control in a class of fractional-order chaotic systems

A no-chattering sliding mode control strategy for a class of fractional-order chaotic systems is proposed in this paper. First, the sliding mode control law is derived to stabilize the states of the commensurate fractional-order chaotic system and the non-commensurate fractional-order chaotic system, respectively. The designed control scheme guarantees the asymptotical stability of an uncertain fractional-order chaotic system. Simulation results are given for several fractional-order chaotic examples to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed scheme.     

双频信号驱动含分数阶内、外阻尼Duffing振子的振动共振

本文利用解析和数值的方法研究了由双频周期信号驱动含分数阶内、外阻尼的Duffing振子的振动共振现象,并讨论了分数阶阶数对上述现象的影响. 研究发现：双频周期信号同时驱动的分数阶Duffing振子响应幅值增益Q可随着高频周期激励幅值的改变达到最大值,即出现了和整数阶非线性动力系统相似的振动共振现象,而相应的分数阶导数项则分别为系统提供了内、外两种阻尼力从而导致了系统有效势函数的改变,进而引发了比整数阶动力系统更为丰富的振动共振现象. 关键词： 振动共振 Duffing振子 分数阶阻尼 分数阶系统     

Analysing chaos in fractional-order systems with the harmonic balance method

In this paper, the fractional-order Genesio--Tesi system showing chaotic behaviours is introduced, and the corresponding one in an integer-order form is studied intensively. Based on the harmonic balance principle, which is widely used in the frequency analysis of nonlinear control systems, a theoretical approach is used to investigate the conditions of system parameters under which this fractional-order system can give rise to a chaotic attractor. Finally, the numerical simulation is used to verify the validity of the theoretical results.     

Synchronization of uncertain fractional-order chaotic systems with disturbance based on a fractional terminal sliding mode controller

This paper provides a novel method to synchronize uncertain fractional-order chaotic systems with external disturbance via fractional terminal sliding mode control. Based on Lyapunov stability theory, a new fractional-order switching manifold is proposed, and in order to ensure the occurrence of sliding motion in finite time, a corresponding sliding mode control law is designed. The proposed control scheme is applied to synchronize the fractional-order Lorenz chaotic system and fractional-order Chen chaotic system with uncertainty and external disturbance parameters. The simulation results show the applicability and efficiency of the proposed scheme.     

具有自适应反馈突触的神经元模型中的混沌:电路设计

近期文献中报道了在具有自适应反馈突触的神经元模型中,随着参数的变化,存在从两个共存吸引子到一个相连吸引子再到两个共存吸引子的混沌转化现象.本文对此模型进行了电路设计,同时对具有非单调激活函数功能的电路设计进行了细致的研究,并利用Electronic Workbench (EWB)软件对所设计的电路进行了仿真实验,研究了电路中的混沌现象,验证了所设计电路的动力学行为与通过数值模拟结果十分相似. 关键词： 自适应反馈突触 神经元模型 混沌 电路设计