Abstract

A novel conservative chaotic system with no equilibrium is investigated in this study. Various dynamics such as the conservativeness, coexistence, symmetry, and invariance are presented. Furthermore, a partial-state feedback control scheme is proposed, and the stable domain of control parameters is analyzed based on the degenerate Hopf bifurcation. In order to verify the numerical simulation analysis, an analog circuit is designed. The simulation results show that the output of the analog circuit system can reproduce the numerical simulation results and verify the correctness of the theoretical analysis.

1. Introduction

Since Lorenz first found the chaotic attractor in the quadratic polynomial ODEs in 1963 [1], many typical chaotic attractors including Rössler attractor [2], Chen and Ueta attractor [3], and Lü attractor [4] were discovered in many nonlinear systems [5,6] in the following decades. However, the attractors of most of them are Shilnikov type, and the corresponding systems have saddle-foci equilibria [7]. In 2011, Leonov first discovered the hidden attractors in Chua’s chaotic circuit [8]; unlike the Shilnikov-type attractors, these hidden attractors are with a basin of attraction which does not contain neighborhoods of equilibria and cannot be determinated by the Shilnikov condition. In the last decade, the systems with hidden attractors mainly include chaotic systems without equilibrium [9], with infinite equilibrium [10, 11], and with only one stable equilibrium [1217]. Although many chaotic systems with hidden attractors have been proposed, most of them are mainly studied by numerical simulation, and the main dynamic behaviors studies are focused on the local structures, while the studies on the global dynamics are relatively rare; hence, it is necessary to study the global dynamics and bifurcation of chaotic systems with hidden attractors to reveal the mechanism of chaos.

In recent years, in the field of hidden attractors, many researchers have paid attention to the coexisting hidden attractors which have more complex hidden characteristics than the ordinary hidden attractors. A modified Chua’s circuit is implemented using a 5-segment piecewise-linear Chua’s diode, and the coexistence of hidden attractors with other three attractors is presented [18]. In 2018, V.T. Pham and his coauthors presented a simple fractional-order 3D chaotic system without equilibrium and explored the coexistence of various attractors [19]. Li [20] constructed a 4D simplified Lorenz system which can generate a variety of coexisting hidden attractors, including the symmetric hidden attractors and the hyperchaotic attractors. It should be noted that most of the above systems are dissipative, so how to construct a conservative system with hidden attractors has become a hot issue in chaos theory. Moreover, according to Liouville’s theorem, for these conservative dynamical systems, the volume of phase space is conservative and the flow is incompressible. Allan and Michael constructed a system with coexisting quasiperiodic and coexisting chaotic flows in 2013 [21]. 3D/4D conservative chaotic systems were constructed by Cang [22, 23]; meanwhile, the dynamics and conservative flows were also researched. Furthermore, conservative chaotic mapping has been revealed in [24, 25].

In addition, there are coexisting chaotic flows in conservative chaotic systems, which may be chaotic flows coexisting with torus [26] or one or more limit cycles [2731] and so on. What causes the coexisting chaotic flows in chaotic systems? While some are caused by offset boosting, Li explored a new regime of chaotic flow, in which one of the variables has the freedom of offset boosting, and a different symmetry was obtained by using a new boosting controller, thereby retaining any existing multistability [32]. Some of them are caused by the symmetry of conditions, different initial values will produce different chaotic flows, and the conditional symmetry may also produce coexisting symmetric chaotic flows [33, 34]. Some are from the structure of hypogenetic Jerk [35]. Such nonequilibrium conservative chaotic systems with coexisting symmetric chaotic flows are very important in engineering applications and may have problems, so it is necessary to study the types and characteristics of their coexisting chaotic flows. Based on the complex characteristics, the conservative coexisting chaotic flows have been applied to many engineering systems, such as tank circuit, chaotic communication, image, video and audio encryption [36], control system, and pseudorandom number generator [37].

On the other hand, the Hopf bifurcation of nonlinear dynamical systems has attracted more and more attention, which is the critical point of stability switching and periodic solution of a system. In order to eliminate saddle node bifurcation or reduce the generated amplitude, it is necessary to design a reasonable nonlinear controller, in which earliest can be traced back that Abed studied the control of Hopf bifurcation [38]. Subsequently, a general explicit formula is derived [39]; this method does not increase the size of the system and can be used to delay (determine) existing forks or change the stability of the fork solution. Ding proposed a time-delayed feedback controller in order to control the fractional-order memristor based chaotic system with time-delay [40]. Now, the work of bifurcation control involves the engineering fields such as aviation [41], electrical machinery [42], and bioengineering [43]. The main feature of conservative systems is that they have chaotic flow instead of the attractor, which means that these systems have complex dynamic characteristics. Thus, it is necessary to analyze the chaotic dynamics of conservative systems. Motivated by this, a new conservative chaotic system with no equilibrium is introduced, and the dynamic characteristics of this new system are analyzed in detail. A feedback control scheme based on the degenerate Hopf bifurcation method is proposed. Finally, the simulation results are illustrated by using the analog circuit.

The main contributions of this study lie in the following aspects:(1)A novel conservative chaotic system with no equilibrium is investigated. Since the investigated system does not have equilibrium, it is very challenging to analyze its dynamics. We analyzed the conservativeness, coexistence, symmetry, and invariance.(2)A new partial-state feedback control by using one-dimensional state for the investigated conservative chaotic system is proposed. Compared with the full-state feedback control methods, the proposed scheme is required to measure less states and provides a simpler controller structure. Thus, the proposed partial-state feedback control scheme can be easily applied in the practical engineering. Furthermore, degenerate Hopf bifurcation was analyzed to illustrate the parametric stability range of the state feedback control system.

The structure of this study is as follows: in Section 2, the conservative chaotic system and the dynamics analysis are presented, including the conservativeness, the symmetry and invariance, and coexisting chaotic behaviors. In Section 3, a partial-state feedback control for the investigated system is proposed, and the stable domain of control parameters is analyzed based on the degenerate Hopf bifurcation method. In Section 4, the numerical simulation results are illustrated by using the analog circuit. Finally, the conclusion is presented in Section 5.

2. Dynamics Analysis

The new conservative chaotic system is given as follows:

Let , system (1) has a line equilibrium when or with no equilibrium when . In order to further study the dynamics of system (1), the numerical simulation analysis will be carried out in the following subsections.

2.1. Conservativeness

The conservativeness of system (1) can be testified by the divergence

Obviously, the conservativeness is not obvious since the dissipation is given by the time-averaged value of along the trajectory. Following the definition, the average value of a variable is given by , and the average of of system (1) with special parameters (from Table 1, we can see that system (1) is chaotic for these parameters.) is shown in Figure 1. It can be seen that the average values of for system (1) will be zero.

In fact, when , system (1) is a special case of the Nose–Hoover oscillator [44], which is invariant to the transformation . Furthermore, we can provide a positive definite energy function which has a quadratic form

Taking the time derivative of , we have

If the average of is zero, we know that the energy of system (1) is invariable. Therefore, the system has a conservative nature (Table 1).

2.2. Symmetry and Invariance

It is obviously that system (1) is invariant under the transformation , i.e., system (1) is symmetrical about the coordinate axis . Interestingly, it is time reversible with LEs that are symmetric about zero for (Table 1).

When the initial value is , the parameter is fixed and the parameters and are changed, and the phase diagrams with different parameters are shown in Figure 2 and summarized in Table 1. It can be seen from Figure 2 that when the Lyapunov dimension is 3, there are chaotic motions, but there are no obvious chaotic attractors.

From Table 1, when the Lyapunov dimension equals the system dimension and the sum of finite-time local Lyapunov exponents is approximately zero, system (1) has a conservative solution (Figures 2(a)2(f)). In addition, system (1) also has symmetric limit cycles (Figures 2(h)2(i)). Moreover, when the values of parameters are changed, the classic butterfly attractor is broken into a symmetric pair of strange attractors, or shrinks into a small attractor basin, which is intertwined with a pair of symmetrical limit cycle basins, resulting in symmetry broken [45,46]. Under the different initial values and , when , we can find coexistence of symmetric pair of chaotic flow as shown in Figure 2(c). The two chaotic domains are represented by red and light blue, respectively. Similarly, in Figure 2(e), , and it shows a typical symmetric pair of chaotic flow in the region, where is relatively small. As increases, a new pair of nearly touching chaotic flows appears, as in Figure 2(f) ().

2.3. Coexistence

From Section 2.2, we can see that system (1) has some chaotic flows. Moreover, since the sum of Lyapunov exponents is approximately zero for system (1) with special parameters, the conservative solution and chaotic flows will coexist in this system (Figure 3(a), chaotic flow coexists a torus). Indeed, there is a limit cycle for some initial points from under , . Following these conditions, if an initial point starts from a limit cycle , we have , and the variable will be fixed. Hence, when , system (1) will become

The system (5) is a Hamiltonian system (conservative system). All orbits starting from will stay in this circle. So we claim that system (1) will have a limit cycle (green cycle shown in Figures 3(b)3(d)) which coexists with other attractors (including chaotic flow) under the condition of , .

Figure 3 shows some coexisting chaotic flows of system (1) for some special . From this figure, we can see that a chaotic flow coexists with a limit cycle (Figure 3(b)), two limit cycles coexist (Figure 3(c)), and three limit cycles (a pair of symmetric limit cycles) coexist (Figure 3(d)). The results show that in phase space, there are independent chaotic and quasiperiodic attractive basins, i.e., chaotic flows coexist with periodic limit cycle. Moreover, we plot the basin attractors as shown in Figure 4. The blue area represents the stable domain of system parameters, and the red area represents the unstable domain of system parameters.

3. Design of Bifurcation-Based Partial-State Feedback Controller

3.1. Partial-State Feedback Controller

In this section, we will consider system (1) subjected to linear feedback control with desired periodic motions. As far as we know, the simplest way to get a period orbit is through Hopf bifurcation. By using the projection method for the calculation of the first and second Lyapunov coefficients associated to the Hopf bifurcation, the generic and degenerate Hopf bifurcation in the controlled system are studied. Consider the controlled system

When , system (6) has only one equilibrium . Let , then system (6) will becomeand the equilibrium will become an origin ; the Jacobian matrix of system (7) at is

Meanwhile, the corresponding characteristic equation isand the eigenvalues are

Obviously, when , system (9) has a pair of pure imaginary roots , and the corresponding eigenvalues are

Taking as the Hopf bifurcation parameter, according to equation (9), we have

Hence,

When , the transversally condition is satisfied.

Proposition 1. Define the Hopf surfaceIf , then the Jacobian matrix of (7) at has one negative real eigenvalue and a pair of purely imaginary eigenvalues .

Meanwhile, we have the following proposition.

Proposition 2. If , the Hopf bifurcation is at the origin when varies and passes through the critical value .

The following of this section is a review of the projection method for the degenerate Hopf bifurcation.

Consider the differential equationwhere and . Suppose system (15) has a zero equilibrium when and letwherefor and so on for .

Suppose has a pair of purely imaginary eigenvalues , let be the generalized eigenspace of corresponding to and be vectors, such thatwhere is the transpond of .

Any vector can be represented aswhere .

The 2D center manifold associated to the eigenvalues can be parameterized by the variables and by means of an immersion of the formwhere has a Taylor expansion of the formwith and . Substituting this expression into (16), we have

The complex vectors are obtained solving system (22). Taking into account the coefficients of , system (22) can be written as

The first Lyapunov coefficient is defined bywhere , and .

Define as

The second Lyapunov coefficient is defined bywhere .

The third Lyapunov coefficient is defined bywhere . The expression for is too large to be put in print and can be found in [47].

3.2. Hopf Bifurcation Analysis

In this section, we study the stability of for parameters in . Using the notation of the previous section, system (7) can be written aswhereand the multilinear symmetric function

Meanwhile, we can calculate such that and

The complex vectors , , and are

The complex number has the form

Defining and the following subsets of the Hopf surface ,

Hence, we have the following theorem.

Theorem 1. The first Lyapunov coefficient at for parameters in is given byIf , system (7) has a transversal Hopf point at for . More specifically, if , then the Hopf point at is unstable (weak repelling focus), and for each , but close to , there exists an unstable limit cycle near the asymptotically stable equilibrium ; if , then the Hopf point at is stable (weak attractor focus), and for each , but close to , there exists a stable limit cycle near the unstable equilibrium point .

If , then , and , so . According to Theorem 1, system (7) is unstable, and for each , but close to , there exists an unstable limit cycle near the asymptotically stable equilibrium . We can get the numerical simulation results as shown in Figure 5(a); there exists an asymptotically stable equilibrium .

If , then , and , so . According to Theorem 1, system (7) is stable, and for each , but close to , there exists a stable limit cycle near the unstable equilibrium point . We can get the numerical simulation results as shown Figure 5(b), and there exists an unstable equilibrium .

The first Lyapunov coefficient vanishes on the straight line:

The second Lyapunov coefficient on the straight line where the first Lyapunov coefficient vanishes will be calculated in the following.

The complex vector can be solved by solving the following equation:and we have

From the coefficients of the term , , and in (22), we havewhere

Hence, we have the following theorem.

Theorem 2. The second Lyapunov coefficient at for parameter in is given byMoreover, the Hopf point at is stable (weak attractor focus), and for each , but close to , there exists a stable limit cycle near the unstable equilibrium point .

If , then , and . According to Theorem 2, the Hopf point at is unstable. We can get the numerical simulation results as shown in Figure 6.

4. Circuit Model Construction and Simulation

4.1. Circuit Model Construction

In this section, we adopted the analog circuit to illustrate the correctness of above analyzes. The chaotic system (1) can be rewritten as follows when :

Then, according to system (42), the circuit principle diagram is designed as shown in Figure 7. The analog circuit is constructed by the AD633 analog multipliers, resistors, LM741 operational amplifiers, and capacitors. The parameters are set as that the gain of multiplier AD633 is 0.1, the voltage of the operational amplifier LM741 is bounded as 15 V, and the output saturated voltage of the operational amplifier LM741 is bounded as 13.5 V; the capacitors are chosen as . We let the time constant ; then, the corresponding circuit equations can be rewritten as

In the circuit of the state equation , the values of resistances are . In the circuit of the state equation , the values of resistances are . In the circuit of the state equation , the values of resistances are , , and can take different values. In order to set the initial value, we add a power supply and two switches at both ends of the capacitor and provide the initial capacitance value by charging the capacitor .

4.2. Circuit Simulation

We consider the following two cases. In the case A, we consider , and the dynamic behavior will be reproduced by the simulation results. Then, in the case B, the control term will be added to the system, and the simulation results will demonstrate the Hopf bifurcation analysis results are as follows:Case A (): in this case, the control term is not considered. The simulation results of the digital oscilloscope are shown in Figure 8. From Figure 8, it can be observed different motion states of system (1) for different values of the parameter under . From Figures 8(a) and 8(b), the rotationally symmetric chaotic flow can be observed under the parameters or . From Figures 8(c) and 8(d), under the parameters or , the symmetric pair of chaotic flows can be observed. From Figure 8(e), under the parameters and , the symmetric limit cycle can be observed. From Figure 8(f), under the parameters and , the symmetric pair of limit cycles can observed. Thus, the results of analog circuit verify the results of the numerical simulation as shown in Figure 2.From Section 2.2, we know that system (1) has coexistence. In this section, we adopt the circuit simulation to reproduce the coexistence as shown in Figure 3(c). The system parameters are , and the initial values are and ; we can get the circuit simulation results as shown in Figure 9. Since Figure 3(c) is the phase diagram, Figure 9 uses (a)–(d) to reproduce the diagram, where Figure 9(a) is the map of the blue limit cycle, Figure 9(b) is the map of the blue limit cycle, Figure 9(c) is the map of the green limit cycle, and Figure 9(d) is the map of the green limit cycle. We can see that the results of analog circuit verify the numerical simulation results as shown in Figure 3(c).Case B (): when the control term , for and , the simulation results are shown in Figures 10(a) and 10(c). From Figures 10(a) and 10(c), the chaotic phenomenon can be observed. Then, the control term is added into system, based on the analysis of Section 3, and we let . The simulation results of are shown in Figures 10(b) and 10(d); obviously, the chaotic phenomenon in Figures 10(a) and 10(c) can be eliminated.

In the simulation experiment, we found an interesting phenomenon. Under the parameter , an interesting phenomenon can be observed by changing the value of resistance . For , the rotationally symmetric chaotic flow with four-wing can be observed (Figure 11(a)). Then, reducing the resistance to , the point symmetric limit cycle and axial symmetric limit cycle can be observed as shown in Figure 11(b).

5. Conclusion

In this study, a novel conservative chaotic system with no equilibria was investigated. Numerical analysis shows the various chaotic characteristics, including the analysis of the conservativeness, the symmetry and invariance, and coexisting chaotic behaviors. Based on one-dimensional state to feedback, a partial-state feedback controller was constructed. Then, the degenerate Hopf bifurcation method was adopted to illustrate the stable domain of control parameters. Finally, an analog circuit system was constructed to simulate the investigated chaotic system, and the circuit simulation results reproduced the numerical analysis results. Indeed, the global dynamics of this new chaotic system and the generation mechanism of chaos is still not fully explained, which is also the content of our future research.

Data Availability

The data generated or analyzed during this study are included within this article.

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest.

Acknowledgments

The authors acknowledge the referees and the editor for carefully reading this article and suggesting many helpful comments. This work was supported by the Natural Science Basic Research Program of Shaanxi (2021JM-533, 2021JQ-880, and 2020JM-646), the Innovation Capability Support Program of Shaanxi (2018GHJD-21), the Science and Technology Program of Xi’an (2019218414GXRC020CG021-GXYD20.3), and the Support Plan for Sanqin Scholars Innovation Team in Shaanxi Province of China, the Fund Project of Xijing University (XJ140231). The authors want to thank the reviewers for their insightful comments.