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Gleison F V Amaral1, Christophe Letellier, Luis Antonio Aguirre
1Departamento de Engenharia Elétrica, Universidade Federal de São João del-Rei, Pça Frei Orlando 170, 36307-352 São João del-Rei, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Abstract:
This paper proposes a procedure by which it is possible to synthesize Rossler [Phys. Lett. A 57, 397-398 (1976)] and Lorenz [J. Atmos. Sci. 20, 130-141 (1963)] dynamics by means of only two affine linear systems and an abrupt switching law. Comparison of different (valid) switching laws suggests that parameters of such a law behave as codimension one bifurcation parameters that can be changed to produce various dynamical regimes equivalent to those observed with the original systems. Topological analysis is used to characterize the resulting attractors and to compare them with the original attractors. The paper provides guidelines that are helpful to synthesize other chaotic dynamics by means of switching affine linear systems.
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