Inductorless Chua's Circuit: Experimental Time Series Analysis

We have implemented an operational amplifier inductorless realization of the Chua's circuit. We have registered time series from its dynamical variables with the resistor R as the control parameter and varying from 1300 Ω to 2000 Ω. Experimental time series at fixed R were used to reconstruct attractors by the delay vector technique. The flow attractors and their Poincare maps considering parameters such as the Lyapunov spectrum, its subproduct the Kaplan-Yorke dimension, and the information dimension are also analyzed here. The results for a typical double scroll attractor indicate a chaotic behavior characterized by a positive Lyapunov exponent and with a Kaplan-Yorke dimension of 2.14. The occurrence of chaos was also investigated through numerical simulations of the Chua's circuit set of differential equations.