Continuous approximations of a class of piece-wise continuous systems

In this paper we provide a rigorous mathematical foundation for continuous approximations of a class of systems with piece-wise continuous functions. By using techniques from the theory of differential inclusions, the underlying piece-wise functions can be locally or globally approximated. The approximation results can be used to model piece-wise continuous-time dynamical systems of integer or fractional-order. In this way, by overcoming the lack of numerical methods for diffrential equations of fractional-order with discontinuous right-hand side, unattainable procedures for systems modeled by this kind of equations, such as chaos control, synchronization, anticontrol and many others, can be easily implemented. Several examples are presented and three comparative applications are studied.Comment: IJBC, accepted (examples revised

Synthesizing the L\"{u} attractor by parameter-switching

In this letter we synthesize numerically the L\"{u} attractor starting from the generalized Lorenz and Chen systems, by switching the control parameter inside a chosen finite set of values on every successive adjacent finite time intervals. A numerical method with fixed step size for ODEs is used to integrate the underlying initial value problem. As numerically and computationally proved in this work, the utilized attractors synthesis algorithm introduced by the present author before, allows to synthesize the L\"{u} attractor starting from any finite set of parameter values.Comment: accepted IJBC, 15 pages, 5 figure

Parameter switching in a generalized Duffing system: Finding the stable attractors

This paper presents a simple periodic parameter-switching method which can find any stable limit cycle that can be numerically approximated in a generalized Duffing system. In this method, the initial value problem of the system is numerically integrated and the control parameter is switched periodically within a chosen set of parameter values. The resulted attractor matches with the attractor obtained by using the average of the switched values. The accurate match is verified by phase plots and Hausdorff distance measure in extensive simulations