Robust output synchronization for complex nonlinear systems.

Zhao, Jin.Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2008.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 79-83).Abstracts in English and Chinese.Abstract --- p.iAcknowledgement --- p.iiiChapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.1Chapter 1.1 --- Synchronization of Master-slave Systems --- p.1Chapter 1.2 --- Output Regulation --- p.2Chapter 1.3 --- Typical Nonlinear Systems --- p.4Chapter 1.4 --- Organization --- p.4Chapter 2 --- Synchronization of Chua's Circuit and Van der Pol Oscillator via Inter- nal Model Approach --- p.6Chapter 2.1 --- Introduction --- p.6Chapter 2.2 --- Problem Formulation --- p.8Chapter 2.3 --- Preliminaries --- p.10Chapter 2.4 --- Solvability of the Problem --- p.13Chapter 2.4.1 --- The solution of the regulator equations --- p.14Chapter 2.4.2 --- Steady-state generator --- p.15Chapter 2.4.3 --- Internal model --- p.19Chapter 2.4.4 --- Stabilization --- p.20Chapter 2.4.5 --- Simulation --- p.22Chapter 2.5 --- Conclusions --- p.27Chapter 3 --- Robust Output Regulation of Output Feedback Systems with Nonlinear Exosystems --- p.28Chapter 3.1 --- Introduction --- p.28Chapter 3.2 --- Assumptions and Preliminaries --- p.29Chapter 3.3 --- Solvability of the Synchronization Problem --- p.33Chapter 3.4 --- Comparing Two Approaches for Output Regulation --- p.42Chapter 3.4.1 --- Differences between the two approaches for the output regulation problem --- p.42Chapter 3.4.2 --- Solvability of the regulator equations --- p.43Chapter 3.4.3 --- Solvability of stabilization --- p.47Chapter 3.5 --- Conclusions --- p.49Chapter 4 --- Applications of Robust Regional Synchronization via Output Regulation Techniques --- p.50Chapter 4.1 --- Problem Formulation --- p.50Chapter 4.2 --- Duffing Oscillator Synchronizes with Chua's Circuit --- p.51Chapter 4.2.1 --- Transfer the synchronization problem into the stabilization problem --- p.53Chapter 4.2.2 --- Boundedness of Chua's circuit --- p.57Chapter 4.2.3 --- Stabilization --- p.59Chapter 4.2.4 --- Simulation Results --- p.64Chapter 4.3 --- The Chaotic SMIB Power System Synchronizes with Van der Pol Oscillator --- p.64Chapter 4.3.1 --- Transfer the synchronization problem into the stabilization problem --- p.68Chapter 4.3.2 --- Stabilization --- p.71Chapter 4.3.3 --- Simulation Results --- p.74Chapter 4.4 --- Conclusions --- p.76Chapter 5 --- Conclusions --- p.77Bibliography --- p.7

Stochastic resonance in chua's circuit driven by alpha-stable noise

Thesis (Master)--Izmir Institute of Technology, Electronics and Communication Engineering, Izmir, 2012Includes bibliographical references (leaves: 75-80)Text in English; Abstract: Turkish and Englishx, 80 leavesThe main aim of this thesis is to investigate the stochastic resonance (SR) in Chua's circuit driven by alpha-stable noise which has better approximation to a real-world signal than Gaussian distribution. SR is a phenomenon in which the response of a nonlinear system to a sub-threshold (weak) input signal is enhanced with the addition of an optimal amount of noise. There have been an increasing amount of applications based on SR in various fields. Almost all studies related to SR in chaotic systems assume that the noise is Gaussian, which leads researchers to investigate the cases in which the noise is non-Gaussian hence has infinite variance. In this thesis, the spectral power amplification which is used to quantify the SR has been evaluated through fractional lower order Wigner Ville distribution of the response of a system and analyzed for various parameters of alpha-stable noise. The results provide a visible SR effect in Chua’s circuit driven by symmetric and skewed-symmetric alpha-stable noise distributions. Furthermore, a series of simulations reveal that the mean residence time that is the average time spent by the trajectory in an attractor can vary depending on different alpha-stable noise parameters

Alternative memristor-based interconnect topologies for fast adaptive synchronization of chaotic circuits

© 2020 Elsevier. This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Resistive switching devices (memristors) constitute an emerging device technology promising for a vari- ety of applications that are currently being studied. In this context, the use of memristors as coupling el- ements of the dynamics of chaotic circuits for adaptive synchronization purposes, was recently proposed and the passive crossbar array was evaluated as target interconnect medium. Nonetheless, memristors may suffer from defects and degradation. Therefore, this work evaluates the impact of memristor switch- ing faults in an adaptive chaotic synchronization scheme, exploring at the same time the fault-tolerance of the crossbar architecture. Moreover, inspired from our observations in the stuck-at-OFF fault analy- sis of the memristive crossbar, some alternative scalable memristive interconnect patterns are suggested, whose performance is found independent of the number of interconnected chaotic circuits, requiring a much smaller number of total memristors than the crossbar array. All simulations are based on an ac- curate physics-based model of a bipolar memristor with filamentary switching mechanism. Based on our results, using the alternative topologies instead of the crossbar array leads to significant savings in the synchronization time that increase with the number of interconnected chaotic units, at the cost of more limited scaling capability and fault-tolerance.This work was supported in part by the Chilean research Grants ANID REDES ETAPA INICIAL 2017 No. REDI170604, ANID FONDECYT INICIACION 11180706, ANID BASAL FB0008, and by the Spanish MINECO and ERDF under Grant TEC2016-75151-C3-2-R.Peer ReviewedPostprint (author's final draft

Joint signal detection and channel estimation in rank-deficient MIMO systems

L'évolution de la prospère famille des standards 802.11 a encouragé le développement des technologies appliquées aux réseaux locaux sans fil (WLANs). Pour faire face à la toujours croissante nécessité de rendre possible les communications à très haut débit, les systèmes à antennes multiples (MIMO) sont une solution viable. Ils ont l'avantage d'accroître le débit de transmission sans avoir recours à plus de puissance ou de largeur de bande. Cependant, l'industrie hésite encore à augmenter le nombre d'antennes des portables et des accésoires sans fil. De plus, à l'intérieur des bâtiments, la déficience de rang de la matrice de canal peut se produire dû à la nature de la dispersion des parcours de propagation, ce phénomène est aussi occasionné à l'extérieur par de longues distances de transmission. Ce projet est motivé par les raisons décrites antérieurement, il se veut un étude sur la viabilité des transcepteurs sans fil à large bande capables de régulariser la déficience de rang du canal sans fil. On vise le développement des techniques capables de séparer M signaux co-canal, même avec une seule antenne et à faire une estimation précise du canal. Les solutions décrites dans ce document cherchent à surmonter les difficultés posées par le medium aux transcepteurs sans fil à large bande. Le résultat de cette étude est un algorithme transcepteur approprié aux systèmes MIMO à rang déficient

Analysis and synthesis techniques of nonlinear dynamical systems with applications to diagnostic of controlled thermonuclear fusion reactors

Nonlinear dynamical systems are of wide interest to engineers, physicists and mathematicians, and this is due to the fact that most of physical systems in nature are inherently non-linear. The nonlinearity of these systems has consequences on their time-evolution, which in some cases can be completely unpredictable, apparently random, although fundamentally deterministic. Chaotic systems are striking examples of this. In most cases, there are no hard and fast rules to analyse these systems. Often, their solutions cannot be obtained in closed form, and it is necessary to resort to numerical integration techniques, which, in case of high sensitivity to initial conditions, lead to ill-conditioning problems and high computational costs. The dynamical system theory, the branch of mathematics used to describe the behaviour of these systems, focuses not on finding exact solutions to the equations describing the dynamical system, but rather on knowing if the system stabilises to a steady state in the long term, and what are the possible attractors, e.g. a quasi-periodic or chaotic attractors. Regarding the synthesis, from both a practical and a theoretical standpoint, it is very desirable to develop methods of synthesizing these systems. Although extensive theory has been developed for linear systems, no complete formulation for nonlinear systems synthesis is present today. The main topic of this thesis is the solution of engineering problems related to the analysis and synthesis of nonlinear and chaotic systems. In particular, a new algorithm which optimizes Lyapunov exponents estimation in piecewise linear systems has been applied to PWL and polynomial chaotic systems. In the field of complex systems synthesis, a systematic method to project systems of order 2n characterized by two positive Lyapunov exponents, has been proposed. This procedure couples nth-order chaotic systems with a suitable nonlinear coupling function. Furthermore, a method for the fault detection has been developed. In the field of time series analysis, a new denoising method, based on the wavelet transform of the noisy signal, has been described. The method implements a variable thresholding, whose optimal value is determined by analysing the cross-correlation between the denoised signal and the residuals and by applying different criteria depending on the particular decomposition level. Finally, a study of dynamical behaviour of Type I ELMs has been performed for a future modelization of the phenomenon. In this context, a statistical analysis of time intervals between successive Type I ELMs has been proposed.---------------------------------- Il tema principale di questa tesi è la soluzione di problemi ingegneristici legati all’analisi e alla sintesi di sistemi dinamici non lineari. I sistemi dinamici non lineari sono di largo interesse per ingegneri, fisici e matematici, e questo è dovuto al fatto che la maggior parte dei sistemi fisici in natura è intrinsecamente non lineare. La non linearità di questi sistemi ha conseguenze sulla loro evoluzione temporale, che in certi casi può rivelarsi del tutto imprevedibile, apparentemente casuale, seppure fondamentalmente deterministica. I sistemi caotici sono un esempio lampante di questo comportamento. Nella maggior parte dei casi non esistono delle regole standard per l’analisi di questi sistemi. Spesso, le soluzioni non possono essere ottenute in forma chiusa, ed è necessario ricorrere a tecniche di integrazione numerica, che, in caso di elevata sensibilità alle condizioni iniziali, portano a problemi di mal condizionamento e di elevato costo computazionale. La teoria dei sistemi dinamici, la branca della matematica usata per descrivere il comportamento di questi sistemi, non si concentra sulla ricerca di soluzioni esatte per le equazioni che descrivono il sistema dinamico, ma piuttosto sull’analisi del comportamento a lungo termine del sistema, per sapere se questo si stabilizzi in uno stato stabile e per sapere quali siano i possibili attrattori, ad esempio, attrattori quasi-periodici o caotici. Per quanto riguarda la sintesi, sia da un punto di vista pratico che teorico, è molto importante lo sviluppo di metodi in grado di sintetizzare questi sistemi. Sebbene per i sistemi lineari sia stata sviluppata una teoria ampia e esaustiva, al momento non esiste alcuna formulazione completa per la sintesi di sistemi non lineari. In questa tesi saranno affrontati problemi di caratterizzazione, analisi e sintesi, legati allo studio di sistemi non lineari e caotici. La caratterizzazione dinamica di un sistema non lineare permette di individuarne il comportamento qualitativo a lungo termine. Gli esponenti di Lyapunov sono degli strumenti che permettono di determinare il comportamento asintotico di un sistema dinamico. Essi danno informazioni circa il tasso di divergenza di traiettorie vicine, caratteristica chiave delle dinamiche caotiche. Le tecniche esistenti per il calcolo degli esponenti di Lyapunov sono computazionalmente costose, e questo fatto ha in qualche modo precluso l’uso estensivo di questi strumenti in problemi di grandi dimensioni. Inoltre, durante il calcolo degli esponenti sorgono dei problemi di tipo numerico, per ciò il calcolo deve essere affrontato con cautela. L’implementazione di algoritmi veloci e accurati per il calcolo degli esponenti di Lyapunov è un problema di interesse attuale. In molti casi pratici il vettore di stato del sistema non è disponibile, e una serie temporale rappresenta l’unica informazione a disposizione. L’analisi di serie storiche è un metodo di analisi dei dati provenienti da serie temporali che ha lo scopo di estrarre delle statistiche significative e altre caratteristiche dei dati, e di ottenere una comprensione della struttura e dei fattori fondamentali che hanno prodotto i dati osservati. Per esempio, un problema dei reattori a fusione termonucleare controllata è l’analisi di serie storiche della radiazione Dα, caratteristica del fenomeno chiamato Edge Localized Modes (ELMs). La comprensione e il 16 controllo degli ELMs sono problemi cruciali per il funzionamento di ITER, in cui il type-I ELMy H-mode è stato scelto come scenario di funzionamento standard. Determinare se la dinamica degli ELM sia caotica o casuale è cruciale per la corretta descrizione dell’ELM cycle. La caratterizzazione dinamica effettuata sulle serie temporali ricorrendo al cosiddetto spazio di embedding, può essere utilizzata per distinguere serie random da serie caotiche. Uno dei problemi più frequenti che si incontra nell’analisi di serie storiche sperimentali è la presenza di rumore, che in alcuni casi può raggiungere anche il 10% o il 20% del segnale. È quindi essenziale , prima di ogni analisi, sviluppare una tecnica appropriata e robusta per il denosing. Quando il modello del sistema è noto, l’analisi di serie storiche può essere applicata al rilevamento di guasti. Questo problema può essere formalizzato come un problema di identificazione dei parametri. In questi casi, la teorie dell’algebra differenziale fornisce utili informazioni circa la natura dei rapporti fra l’osservabile scalare, le variabili di stato e gli altri parametri del sistema. La sintesi di sistemi caotici è un problema fondamentale e interessante. Questi sistemi non implicano soltanto un metodo di realizzazione di modelli matematici esistenti ma anche di importanti sistemi fisici reali. La maggior parte dei metodi presentati in letteratura dimostra numericamente la presenza di dinamiche caotiche, per mezzo del calcolo degli esponenti di Lyapunov. In particolare, le dinamiche ipercaotiche sono identificate dalla presenza di due esponenti di Lyapunov positivi

Constraint satisfaction modules : a methodology for analog circuit design

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2007.Includes bibliographical references (p. 119-122).This dissertation describes a methodology for solving convex constraint problems using analog circuits. It demonstrates how this methodology can be used to design circuits that solve function-fitting problems through iterated gradient descent. In particular, it shows how to build a small circuit that can model a nonlinearity by observation, and predistort to compensate for this nonlinearity. The system fits into a broader effort to investigate non-traditional approaches to circuit design. First, it breaks the traditional input-output abstraction barrier; all ports are bidirectional. Second, it uses a different methodology for proving system stability with local rather than global properties. Such stability arguments can be scaled to much more complex systems than traditional stability criteria.by Piotr Mitros.Ph.D