Design strategies for the creation of aperiodic nonchaotic attractors

Chaos. 2009 Sep;19(3):033116. doi: 10.1063/1.3194250.

Abstract

Parametric modulation in nonlinear dynamical systems can give rise to attractors on which the dynamics is aperiodic and nonchaotic, namely, with largest Lyapunov exponent being nonpositive. We describe a procedure for creating such attractors by using random modulation or pseudorandom binary sequences with arbitrarily long recurrence times. As a consequence the attractors are geometrically fractal and the motion is aperiodic on experimentally accessible time scales. A practical realization of such attractors is demonstrated in an experiment using electronic circuits.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Algorithms*
  • Computer Simulation*
  • Models, Statistical*
  • Nonlinear Dynamics*
  • Oscillometry / methods*