Three-dimensional chaotic autonomous van der pol–duffing type oscillator and its fractional-order form

Abstract

In this paper, a three-dimensional autonomous Van der Pol-Duffing (VdPD) type oscillator is proposed. The three-dimensional autonomous VdPD oscillator is obtained by replacing the external periodic drive source of two-dimensional chaotic nonautonomous VdPD type oscillator by a direct positive feedback loop. By analyzing the stability of the equilibrium points, the existence of Hopf bifurcation is established. The dynamical properties of proposed three-dimensional autonomous VdPD type oscillator is investigated showing that for a suitable choice of the parameters, it can exhibit periodic behaviors, chaotic behaviors and coexistence between periodic and chaotic attractors. Moreover, the physical existence of the chaotic behavior and coexisting attractors found in three-dimensional proposed autonomous VdPD type oscillator is verified by using Orcard-PSpice software. A good qualitative agreement is shown between the numerical simulations and Orcard-PSpice results. In addition, fractional-order chaotic three-dimensional proposed autonomous VdPD type oscillator is studied. The lowest order of the commensurate form of this oscillator to exhibit chaotic behavior is found to be 2.979. The stability analysis of the controlled fractional-order-form of proposed three-dimensional autonomous VdPD type oscillator at its equilibria is undertaken using Routh–Hurwitz conditions for fractional-order systems. Finally, an example of observer-based synchronization applied to unidirectional coupled identical proposed chaotic fractional-order oscillator is illustrated. It is shown that synchronization can be achieved for appropriate coupling strength.