title: On the complexity of periodic and nonperiodic behaviors of a hysteresis-based electronic oscillator.
abstract: We investigate the families of periodic and nonperiodic behaviors admitted by a hysteresis-based circuit oscillator. The analysis is carried out by combining brute-force simulations with continuation methods. As a result of the analysis, it is shown that the existence of many different periodic solutions and of the chaotic behaviors associated with them is organized by few codimension-2 bifurcation points. This implies the possibility of switching between different periodic solutions by controlling only two bifurcation parameters, which makes the oscillator a possible generator of nontrivial periodic solutions suitable, for instance for actual radiofrequency identification systems applications.
authors.affiliation: Biophysical and Electronic Engineering Department, University of Genoa, Via Opera Pia 11a, I-16145 Genova, Italy.
authors.forename: Daniele
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Stellardo
authors.forename: Federico
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Bizzarri
authors.forename: Marco
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Storace
authors.forename: Oscar
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: De Feo
mesh_terms: D003198:Computer Simulation; D004582:Electronics, Medical; D004867:Equipment Design; D017711:Nonlinear Dynamics; D009991:Oscillometry / Q000379:methods*; D011846:Radio Waves; D013997:Time Factors