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  • Feature Paper
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21 Citations
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17 Pages

A Symmetric Controllable Hyperchaotic Hidden Attractor

  • Xin Zhang,
  • Chunbiao Li,
  • Tengfei Lei,
  • Zuohua Liu and
  • Changyuan Tao

4 April 2020

By introducing a simple feedback, a hyperchaotic hidden attractor is found in the newly proposed Lorenz-like chaotic system. Some variables of the equilibria-free system can be controlled in amplitude and offset by an independent knob. A circuit expe...

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  • Open Access
21 Citations
3,768 Views
22 Pages

Stabilization and Synchronization of a Complex Hidden Attractor Chaotic System by Backstepping Technique

  • Jesus M. Munoz-Pacheco,
  • Christos Volos,
  • Fernando E. Serrano,
  • Sajad Jafari,
  • Jacques Kengne and
  • Karthikeyan Rajagopal

20 July 2021

In this paper, the stabilization and synchronization of a complex hidden chaotic attractor is shown. This article begins with the dynamic analysis of a complex Lorenz chaotic system considering the vector field properties of the analyzed system in th...

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  • Open Access
21 Citations
4,463 Views
23 Pages

Hidden attractors are associated with multistability phenomena, which have considerable application prospects in engineering. By modifying a simple three-dimensional continuous quadratic dynamical system, this paper reports a new autonomous chaotic s...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,033 Views
12 Pages

22 December 2022

In this paper, hidden dynamical behaviors in a novel fractional-order hyperchaotic system without an equilibrium point are investigated. It is found that the chaotic system exhibits various hidden behaviors for different parameters, such as the hyper...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
2,300 Views
14 Pages

22 October 2022

In this paper, a chaotic system with surface equilibrium and a hidden attractor was studied, and the dynamical behavior, synchronization scheme and circuit application of the system were analyzed. Firstly, the stability analysis and dynamic behavior...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
5,099 Views
19 Pages

Hidden Strange Nonchaotic Attractors

  • Marius-F. Danca and
  • Nikolay Kuznetsov

18 March 2021

In this paper, it is found numerically that the previously found hidden chaotic attractors of the Rabinovich–Fabrikant system actually present the characteristics of strange nonchaotic attractors. For a range of the bifurcation parameter, the hidden...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,954 Views
15 Pages

A Hidden Chaotic System with Multiple Attractors

  • Xiefu Zhang,
  • Zean Tian,
  • Jian Li,
  • Xianming Wu and
  • Zhongwei Cui

14 October 2021

This paper reports a hidden chaotic system without equilibrium point. The proposed system is studied by the software of MATLAB R2018 through several numerical methods, including Largest Lyapunov exponent, bifurcation diagram, phase diagram, Poincaré...

  • Article
  • Open Access
87 Citations
6,488 Views
18 Pages

A New Fractional-Order Chaotic System with Different Families of Hidden and Self-Excited Attractors

  • Jesus M. Munoz-Pacheco,
  • Ernesto Zambrano-Serrano,
  • Christos Volos,
  • Sajad Jafari,
  • Jacques Kengne and
  • Karthikeyan Rajagopal

28 July 2018

In this work, a new fractional-order chaotic system with a single parameter and four nonlinearities is introduced. One striking feature is that by varying the system parameter, the fractional-order system generates several complex dynamics: self-exci...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
2,784 Views
23 Pages

Fuzzy Synchronization of Chaotic Systems with Hidden Attractors

  • Jessica Zaqueros-Martinez,
  • Gustavo Rodriguez-Gomez,
  • Esteban Tlelo-Cuautle and
  • Felipe Orihuela-Espina

13 March 2023

Chaotic systems are hard to synchronize, and no general solution exists. The presence of hidden attractors makes finding a solution particularly elusive. Successful synchronization critically depends on the control strategy, which must be carefully c...

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  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,043 Views
13 Pages

Existence of Self-Excited and Hidden Attractors in the Modified Autonomous Van Der Pol-Duffing Systems

  • A. E. Matouk,
  • T. N. Abdelhameed,
  • D. K. Almutairi,
  • M. A. Abdelkawy and
  • M. A. E. Herzallah

22 January 2023

This study investigates the multistability phenomenon and coexisting attractors in the modified Autonomous Van der Pol-Duffing (MAVPD) system and its fractional-order form. The analytical conditions for existence of periodic solutions in the integer-...

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  • Open Access
33 Citations
4,266 Views
24 Pages

The investigation of chaotic systems containing hidden and coexisting attractors has attracted extensive attention. This paper presents a four-dimensional (4D) novel hyperchaotic system, evolved by adding a linear state feedback controller to a 3D ch...

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  • Open Access
357 Views
24 Pages

12 December 2025

Memristor is widely used to construct various memristive neural networks with complex dynamical behaviors. However, hidden multiple attractors have never been realized in memristive neural networks. This paper proposes a novel chaotic system based on...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,456 Views
8 Pages

Hidden Attractors in Discrete Dynamical Systems

  • Marek Berezowski and
  • Marcin Lawnik

16 May 2021

Research using chaos theory allows for a better understanding of many phenomena modeled by means of dynamical systems. The appearance of chaos in a given process can lead to very negative effects, e.g., in the construction of bridges or in systems ba...

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  • Open Access
18 Citations
2,784 Views
25 Pages

The study of hidden attractors plays a very important role in the engineering applications of nonlinear dynamical systems. In this paper, a new three-dimensional (3D) chaotic system is proposed in which hidden attractors and self-excited attractors a...

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  • Open Access
27 Citations
2,633 Views
13 Pages

21 December 2022

In this paper, a new six dimensional memristor chaotic system is designed by combining the chaotic system with a memristor. By analyzing the phase diagram of the chaotic attractors, eleven different attractors are found, including a multi-wing attrac...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
4,872 Views
21 Pages

15 March 2019

This paper presents a new no-equilibrium 4-D hyperchaotic multistable system with coexisting hidden attractors. One prominent feature is that by varying the system parameter or initial value, the system can generate several nonlinear complex attracto...

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  • Open Access
25 Citations
4,146 Views
15 Pages

19 January 2020

In this study, the design of an adaptive terminal sliding mode controller for the stabilization of port Hamiltonian chaotic systems with hidden attractors is proposed. This study begins with the design methodology of a chaotic oscillator with a hidde...

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  • Open Access
1,815 Views
14 Pages

Outer Topology Network Synchronization Using Chaotic Nodes with Hidden Attractors

  • Carlos Andrés Villalobos-Aranda,
  • Adrian Arellano-Delgado,
  • Ernesto Zambrano-Serrano,
  • Javier Pliego-Jiménez and
  • César Cruz-Hernández

27 June 2023

This paper addresses the synchronization problem in outer topology networks using chaotic nodes with hidden attractors. Specifically, we analyze bidirectionally coupled networks with various inner–outer coupling topologies to identify the optim...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
2,735 Views
22 Pages

To further understand the dynamical characteristics of chaotic systems with a hidden attractor and coexisting attractors, we investigated the fundamental dynamics of a novel three-dimensional (3D) chaotic system derived by adding a simple constant te...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,651 Views
14 Pages

A Giga-Stable Oscillator with Hidden and Self-Excited Attractors: A Megastable Oscillator Forced by His Twin

  • Thoai Phu Vo,
  • Yeganeh Shaverdi,
  • Abdul Jalil M. Khalaf,
  • Fawaz E. Alsaadi,
  • Tasawar Hayat and
  • Viet-Thanh Pham

25 May 2019

In this paper, inspired by a newly proposed two-dimensional nonlinear oscillator with an infinite number of coexisting attractors, a modified nonlinear oscillator is proposed. The original system has an exciting feature of having layer–layer co...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,985 Views
20 Pages

Generating Multidirectional Variable Hidden Attractors via Newly Commensurate and Incommensurate Non-Equilibrium Fractional-Order Chaotic Systems

  • Nadjette Debbouche,
  • Shaher Momani,
  • Adel Ouannas,
  • ’Mohd Taib’ Shatnawi,
  • Giuseppe Grassi,
  • Zohir Dibi and
  • Iqbal M. Batiha

24 February 2021

This article investigates a non-equilibrium chaotic system in view of commensurate and incommensurate fractional orders and with only one signum function. By varying some values of the fractional-order derivative together with some parameter values o...

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  • Open Access
25 Citations
2,591 Views
22 Pages

17 July 2024

The design of chaotic systems with complex dynamic behaviors has always been a key aspect of chaos theory in engineering applications. This study introduces a novel fractional-order system characterized by hidden dynamics, hyperchaotic behavior, and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
1,417 Views
26 Pages

To model the response of neural networks to electromagnetic radiation in real-world environments, this study proposes a memristive dual-wing fractional-order Hopfield neural network (MDW-FOMHNN) model, utilizing a fractional-order memristor to simula...

  • Article
  • Open Access
36 Citations
3,743 Views
19 Pages

5 April 2020

In the present work, a new nonequilibrium four-dimensional chaotic jerk system is presented. The proposed system includes only one constant term and has coexisting and hidden attractors. Firstly, the dynamical behavior of the system is investigated u...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,775 Views
15 Pages

2 February 2023

In view of the diversity of stimulated current that neurons may experience, an extended Hindmarsh–Rose neuron model is proposed and the corresponding fractional-order neuron model, with no equilibrium point, is depicted. Additionally, various h...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,535 Views
18 Pages

Hidden Dynamics of a New Jerk-like System with a Smooth Memristor and Applications in Image Encryption

  • Zuolei Wang,
  • Lizhou Zhuang,
  • Jianjiang Yu,
  • Haibo Jiang,
  • Wanjiang Xu and
  • Xuerong Shi

10 November 2023

Considering the dynamic characteristics of memristors, a new Jerk-like system without an equilibrium point is addressed based on a Jerk-like system, and the hidden dynamics are investigated. When changing system parameter b and fixing other parameter...

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  • Open Access
19 Citations
3,934 Views
18 Pages

Chaotic Dynamics by Some Quadratic Jerk Systems

  • Mei Liu,
  • Bo Sang,
  • Ning Wang and
  • Irfan Ahmad

14 September 2021

This paper is about the dynamical evolution of a family of chaotic jerk systems, which have different attractors for varying values of parameter a. By using Hopf bifurcation analysis, bifurcation diagrams, Lyapunov exponents, and cross sections, both...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,284 Views
22 Pages

9 June 2020

Aiming at the problems of small key space, low security of encryption structure, and easy to crack existing image encryption algorithms combining chaotic system and DNA sequence, this paper proposes an image encryption algorithm based on a hidden att...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
3,164 Views
15 Pages

A Quadratic Fractional Map without Equilibria: Bifurcation, 0–1 Test, Complexity, Entropy, and Control

  • Adel Ouannas,
  • Amina-Aicha Khennaoui,
  • Shaher Momani,
  • Giuseppe Grassi,
  • Viet-Thanh Pham,
  • Reyad El-Khazali and
  • Duy Vo Hoang

Fractional calculus in discrete-time systems is a recent research topic. The fractional maps introduced in the literature often display chaotic attractors belonging to the class of “self-excited attractors”. The field of fractional map wi...

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  • Open Access
26 Citations
4,513 Views
24 Pages

22 October 2019

As a new type of nonlinear electronic component, a memristor can be used in a chaotic system to increase the complexity of the system. In this paper, a flux-controlled memristor is applied to an existing chaotic system, and a novel five-dimensional c...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,921 Views
12 Pages

Hidden Dynamics and Hybrid Synchronization of Fractional-Order Memristive Systems

  • Haipeng Jiang,
  • Lizhou Zhuang,
  • Cheng Chen and
  • Zuolei Wang

15 November 2022

A fractional-order memristive system without equilibrium is addressed. Hidden attractors in the proposed system are discussed and the coexistence of a hidden attractor is found. Via theoretical analysis, the hybrid synchronization of the proposed sys...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,127 Views
23 Pages

9 January 2025

In this paper, we first design the corresponding integration algorithm and matlab program according to the Gauss–Legendre integration principle. Then, we select the Lorenz system, the Duffing system, the hidden attractor chaotic system and the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,026 Views
13 Pages

Bifurcations, Hidden Chaos and Control in Fractional Maps

  • Adel Ouannas,
  • Othman Abdullah Almatroud,
  • Amina Aicha Khennaoui,
  • Mohammad Mossa Alsawalha,
  • Dumitru Baleanu,
  • Van Van Huynh and
  • Viet-Thanh Pham

27 May 2020

Recently, hidden attractors with stable equilibria have received considerable attention in chaos theory and nonlinear dynamical systems. Based on discrete fractional calculus, this paper proposes a simple two-dimensional and three-dimensional fractio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,074 Views
16 Pages

Coexisting attractors and the consequent jump in a harmonically excited smooth and discontinuous (SD) oscillator with double potential wells are studied in detail herein. The intra-well periodic solutions in the vicinity of the nontrivial equilibria...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,357 Views
14 Pages

Coupled Discrete Fractional-Order Logistic Maps

  • Marius-F. Danca,
  • Michal Fečkan,
  • Nikolay Kuznetsov and
  • Guanrong Chen

8 September 2021

This paper studies a system of coupled discrete fractional-order logistic maps, modeled by Caputo’s delta fractional difference, regarding its numerical integration and chaotic dynamics. Some interesting new dynamical properties and unusual phenomena...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,093 Views
16 Pages

D3 Dihedral Logistic Map of Fractional Order

  • Marius-F. Danca and
  • Nikolay Kuznetsov

11 January 2022

In this paper, the D3 dihedral logistic map of fractional order is introduced. The map presents a dihedral symmetry D3. It is numerically shown that the construction and interpretation of the bifurcation diagram versus the fractional order requires s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,165 Views
13 Pages

4 July 2019

When chaotic systems are used in different practical applications, such as chaotic secure communication and chaotic pseudorandom sequence generators, a large number of chaotic systems are strongly required. However, for a lack of a systematic constru...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,432 Views
18 Pages

A Simple Chaotic Flow with Hyperbolic Sinusoidal Function and Its Application to Voice Encryption

  • Saleh Mobayen,
  • Christos Volos,
  • Ünal Çavuşoğlu and
  • Sezgin S. Kaçar

10 December 2020

In this article, a new chaotic system with hyperbolic sinusoidal function is introduced. This chaotic system provides a new category of chaotic flows which gives better perception of chaotic attractors. In the proposed chaotic flow with hyperbolic si...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,663 Views
15 Pages

Multiple attractors and their fractal basins of attraction can lead to the loss of global stability and integrity of Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS). In this paper, multistability of a class of electrostatic bilateral capacitive micro-resonat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
2,412 Views
22 Pages

Bifurcation Analysis, Synchronization and FPGA Implementation of a New 3-D Jerk System with a Stable Equilibrium

  • Sundarapandian Vaidyanathan,
  • Ahmad Taher Azar,
  • Ibrahim A. Hameed,
  • Khaled Benkouider,
  • Esteban Tlelo-Cuautle,
  • Brisbane Ovilla-Martinez,
  • Chang-Hua Lien and
  • Aceng Sambas

8 June 2023

This research paper addresses the modelling of a new 3-D chaotic jerk system with a stable equilibrium. Such chaotic systems are known to exhibit hidden attractors. After the modelling of the new jerk system, a detailed bifurcation analysis has been...

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  • Open Access
34 Citations
5,793 Views
12 Pages

A New Chaotic System with Stable Equilibrium: Entropy Analysis, Parameter Estimation, and Circuit Design

  • Tomasz Kapitaniak,
  • S. Alireza Mohammadi,
  • Saad Mekhilef,
  • Fawaz E. Alsaadi,
  • Tasawar Hayat and
  • Viet-Thanh Pham

5 September 2018

In this paper, we introduce a new, three-dimensional chaotic system with one stable equilibrium. This system is a multistable dynamic system in which the strange attractor is hidden. We investigate its dynamic properties through equilibrium analysis,...

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  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,007 Views
8 Pages

17 January 2019

Chaotic systems with hidden attractors, infinite number of equilibrium points and different closed curve equilibrium have received much attention in the past six years. In this work, we introduce a new family of chaotic systems with different closed...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,587 Views
14 Pages

Hidden-like Attractors in a Class of Discontinuous Dynamical Systems

  • Hany A. Hosham,
  • Mashael A. Aljohani,
  • Eman D. Abou Elela,
  • Nada A. Almuallem and
  • Thoraya N. Alharthi

29 November 2024

In continuous dynamical systems, a hidden attractor occurs when its basin of attraction does not connect with small neighborhoods of equilibria. This research aims to investigate the presence of hidden-like attractors in a class of discontinuous syst...

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  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,286 Views
14 Pages

A Family of 1D Chaotic Maps without Equilibria

  • Marcin Lawnik,
  • Lazaros Moysis and
  • Christos Volos

27 June 2023

In this work, a family of piecewise chaotic maps is proposed. This family of maps is parameterized by the nonlinear functions used for each piece of the mapping, which can be either symmetric or non-symmetric. Applying a constraint on the shape of ea...

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  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,943 Views
15 Pages

A Fractional-Order Improved Quantum Logistic Map: Chaos, 0-1 Testing, Complexity, and Control

  • Birong Xu,
  • Ximei Ye,
  • Guangyi Wang,
  • Zhongxian Huang and
  • Changwu Zhang

16 January 2023

Based on a quantum logistic map and a Caputo-like delta difference operator, a fractional-order improved quantum logistic map, which has hidden attractors, was constructed. Its dynamical behaviors are investigated by employing phase portraits, bifurc...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
560 Views
29 Pages

5 October 2025

Fractional-order chaotic systems have emerged as powerful tools in secure communications and multimedia protection owing to their memory-dependent dynamics, large key spaces, and high sensitivity to initial conditions. However, most existing fraction...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,127 Views
14 Pages

A Novel Chaotic System with a Line Equilibrium: Analysis and Its Applications to Secure Communication and Random Bit Generation

  • Lazaros Moysis,
  • Christos Volos,
  • Ioannis Stouboulos,
  • Sotirios Goudos,
  • Serdar Çiçek,
  • Viet-Thanh Pham and
  • Vikas K. Mishra

17 December 2020

In this study, a novel two-parameter, three-dimensional chaotic system is constructed. The system has no linear terms and its equilibrium is a line, so it is a system with hidden attractors. The system is first studied by computation of its bifurcati...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,773 Views
16 Pages

30 October 2020

This paper investigates the chaotic behavior of a modified jerk circuit with Chua’s diode. The Chua’s diode considered here is a nonlinear resistor having a symmetric piecewise linear voltage-current characteristic. To describe the system...

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