Model
By means of the application of the laws of electromagnetism, the dynamics of Chua's circuit can be accurately modeled by means of a system of three nonlinear ordinary differential equations in the variables x(t), y(t) and z(t), which give the voltages across the capacitors C1 and C2, and the intensity of the electrical current in the inductor L1, respectively. These equations read:
The function f(x) describes the electrical response of the nonlinear resistor, and its shape depends on the particular configuration of its components. The parameters α and β are determined by the particular values of the circuit components.
A chaotic attractor, known as "The Double Scroll" because of its shape in the (x,y,z) space, was first observed in a circuit containing a nonlinear element such that f(x) was a 3-segment piecewise-linear function.
The easy experimental implementation of the circuit, combined with the existence of a simple and accurate theoretical model, makes Chua's circuit a useful system to study many fundamental and applied issues of chaos theory. Because of this, it has been object of much study, and appears widely referenced in the literature. Moreover the Chua' s circuit can be easily realized by using a multilayer CNN (Cellular Nonlinear Networks). The CNN have been just invented by Leon Chua in 1988. To date, а huge number of various types of chaotic attractors in Chua's system has been discovered, which can be obtained numerically, with relative ease, by standard computational procedure (after transient process a trajectory, started from a point of unstable manifold in a small neighborhood of unstable zero equilibrium, reaches an attractor and computes it). Also, recently, a hidden Chua's attractor was discovered in classical Chua circuit, and in its smooth and discontinous modifications.
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