Controlling spiral waves in a model of two-dimensional arrays of Chua's circuits

A model of two-dimensional arrays of Chua's circuits is numerically investigated In a certain parameter region the spatiotemporal system has both synchronized oscillation and spiral wave attractors. Feedback pinnings are suggested to migrate the system from the spiral wave state to the coherent oscillation. The influences of the pinning density, forcing strength, and different pinning distributions on the driving effect an investigated. It is shown that some properly designed control schemes may reach very high control efficiency, i.e., killing a spiral wave consisting of a huge number of cells by injecting only very few cells. The wide applications of the approach are addressed.