CHAPTER 4

RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONS

4.1 System Design

Introduction to Chua’s circuit

The electrical circuit depicted in Figure below is known as the Chua circuit. It is
a very simple circuit that consists of two resistors, two capacitors, one inductance and
one diode. This innocent looking circuit received a great deal of attention in the 90’s in
the study of complex nonlinear dynamical phenomena, and has been a leading example
in the study of chaos. When parameters of this system are changed, chaotic behavior
may appear and disappear suddenly in several ways. The popularity of the Chua circuit
is due to the fact that the circuit can be built with few and very cheap components.

Figure 4.1: Chua circuit

It is a simple electronic circuit that exhibits classic chaotic behavior. This means
roughly that it is a ”nonperiodic oscillator”; it produces an oscillating waveform that,
unlike an ordinary electronic oscillator, never ”repeats”. It was invented in 1983 by
Leon O. Chua, who was a visitor at Waseda University in Japan at that time. The ease
of construction of the circuit has made it a ubiquitous real-world example of a chaotic
system, leading some to declare it ”a paradigm for chaos”.

Modeling the circuit

The circuit is modeled assuming ideal linear characteristics for the capacitors, the

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