Memristor Initial-Offset Boosting in Memristive HR Neuron Model with Hidden Firing Patterns

Abstract

A new three-dimensional (3D) memristive HR neuron model is presented, which is improved from an existing memristive HR neuron model using a memristor synapse with sine memductance to substitute the original one. The improved memristive HR neuron model has no equilibrium but hidden firing activities can emerge with discrete memristor initial-offset boosting. Treating the neuron model as a two-dimensional (2D) major subsystem controlled by a magnetic flux variable, fold bifurcations for hidden chaotic and periodic firing patterns are elaborated. The coexistence of hidden firing patterns induced by memristor initial boosting is quantitatively analyzed and numerically simulated by bifurcation plots, phase plots, and basins of attraction. The results demonstrate that the improved memristive HR neuron model can exhibit a discrete memristor initial-offset boosting behavior owning infinitely many disconnected basins of attraction and the generating firing patterns can be boosted to different discrete levels by changing the memristor initial value, differing entirely from various boosting behaviors reported previously. Therefore, infinitely many hidden coexisting offset-boosted firing patterns with the same initial-offsets and attractor types are disclosed along the boosting route, which are homogenous with extreme multistability and are perfectly validated by PSIM circuit simulations based on a physically implementation-oriented analog circuit.