Generating multi-scroll chaotic attractors by thresholding

This Letter proposes a novel thresholding approach for creating multi-scroll chaotic attractors. The general jerk circuit and Chua's circuit with sine nonlinearity are then used as two representative examples to show the working principle of this method. The controlled jerk circuit can generate various limit cycles and multi-scroll chaotic attractors by tuning the thresholds and the width of inner threshold plateau. The dynamic mechanism of threshold control is further explored by analyzing the system dynamical behaviors. In particular, this approach is effective and easy to be implemented since we only need to monitor the threshold variables or their functions and then reset them if they exceed the desired thresholds. Furthermore, two simple block circuit diagrams with threshold controllers are designed for the implementations of 1, 2, 3-scroll chaotic attactors. It indicates the potential engineering applications for various chaos-based information systems. (c) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.