Hidden Attractors and Dynamics of a General Autonomous van der Pol–Duffing Oscillator

Abstract

In this paper, a general autonomous van der Pol–Duffing oscillator is studied. Several issues, such as periodic bifurcations and the dynamical structures of the system are investigated either analytically or numerically. Especially, a phenomenon of hidden attractors is noticed and an algorithm for the location of hidden attractors is given. The obtained results show that hidden attractors exist around chaotic attractors.