Reverberation Chambers at the Edge of Chaos: Discussion Forum at EMC Europe 2020

Reverberation chambers – design and application for EMC

Reverberation chambers are a promising EMC test environment which has several advantages. The set-up and design of reverberation chambers are discussed in the first part of the paper. The second part deals with their application for EMC. Several performance and comparison tests are presented and discussed which show a good reliability and reproducibility of the reverberation chamber as a test e...

Education at the edge of chaos.

Dynamical ‘strangeness’ at the edge of chaos

A recently introduced class of dynamical systems, the generalized shifts, is shown to exhibit both topological chaos, while being metrically ordered, and a phase transition in the framework of the thermodynamic formalism when this is applied to its entropic properties. Therefore, it provides a further example of complex behaviour emerging at the border between order and chaos. Its anomalous dyn...

Immune network at the edge of chaos.

Some time ago Jerne proposed a new theory to explain the basis of the immune system. He suggested the existence of a functional connected network, based on pattern recognition of the idiotypes carried by the lymphocytes, which is responsible for the self regulation of the immune system. Only 15-20% of the lymphocytes available in the immune repertoire will participate in this functional network...

Emergent Behaviours At The Edge of Chaos

Emergent behaviours are a welcome feature in a robot that is expected to work in the real world. However they are too often the result of careful engineering, thus lacking a “true emergent” component. Here we explore the emergence of behaviours in a chaos driven robot. A random recurrent neural network drives the activation of several behaviours. Attractors in the network are created by using a...