Van der Pol and Chaos

Abstract

Experimental confirmation has been made on a driven relaxation oscillator circuit, first presented by Van der Pol, of the period-adding route to chaos. The nonlinear element in the circuit is a neon bulb, modeled by a three-segment piecewise-linear current-controlled resistor. A simple nonlinear circuit model has been used to reproduce in simulations the experimentally-observed period-adding phenomenon. © 1986 IEEE

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IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems

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