Pcchua - a Laboratory setup for Real-Time Control and Synchronization of Chaotic oscillations

This paper describes a laboratory setup suitable for implementing low cost real-time solutions in the fields of control, synchronization and information transmission based on chaotic oscillators. The setup has the following features: (a) it is composed of a Chua oscillator furnished with three actuators thus permitting monoand multi-variable control; (b) the actuators can be driven by the analog outputs of a standard I/O-board; in order to be able to actuate fast enough (c) the I/O-board is driven by a real time program written for Linux and (d) an inductorless implementation of Chua’s circuit permits to slow down the original dynamics to just a few hertz. This enables implementing sophisticated control schemes without severe time restrictions. The paper concludes with a sample of experiments performed using the new setup.