A NEW FAMILY OF FIRST-ORDER TIME-DELAYED CHAOTIC SYSTEMS

Abstract

A general method for formulating first-order time-delayed chaotic systems with simple linear time-delayed term is proposed. The formulated systems are realized with electronic circuit experiments. In order to determine the unknown coefficients in a general delayed differential equations for having chaotic solutions, we follow the route of period-doubling bifurcation to chaos. Firstly, the conditions for a time-delayed system having a stable periodic solution, generating from a destablized steady state, is analyzed with Hopf bifurcation theory. Then the delay time parameter is changed according to the bifurcation direction to search the chaotic state, which is identified by the Lyapunov exponents spectra. The theoretical analysis is well confirmed by numerical simulations and circuit experiments.