Integrator-based circuit-independent chaotic oscillator structure

Abstract

An integrator-based chaotic oscillator structure composed of three cascaded inverting, noninverting, and differential integrators is presented. The nonlinearity responsible for folding the trajectories is introduced by a single switching diode which is controlled by the output of the first integrator in the cascade. Chaotic behavior is verified on the functional level of the structure rendering it circuit-independent. A possible circuit realization is given and a canonical single-parameter-controlled ordinary differential equation capturing the qualitative dynamics of similar fourth-order integrator-based chaotic oscillators is proposed.