In this study, synchronization phenomena observed in van der Pol oscillators coupled by a timevarying resistor are investigated. We realize the time-varying resistor by switching a positive and a negative resistor periodically. By carrying out circuit experiments and computer calculations, interesting synchronization phenomena can be confirmed to be generated in this system. Namely, the synchro...

Technical details are given on how to use Fourier acceleration with iterative processes such as relaxation and conjugate gradient methods. These methods are often used to solve large linear systems of equations, but become hopelessly slow very rapidly as the size of the set of equations to be solved increases. Fourier acceleration is a method designed to alleviate these problems and result in a...

We describe Back-Propagation neural networks (BP model) ['I implemented into a visual verification system of numbers stamped on the surface of chip resistors. A 3-digit number is stamped whitely on the rectangular black area, that is on the su@ace of each chip resistor, bordered by a white frame. The number and a fragment of the frame are imaged from a CCD camera. Firstly, the number is circums...

A numerical method for the calculation of the electrical conductivity of porous ceramics for gas sensing applications is developed, which takes into account detailed microstructural features by mapping a mesoscopic irregular resistor network onto the microstructure. The overall conductance of the ceramic sample is obtained by solving the Kirchhoff equations for the irregular network using an ef...

2014 An effective-medium theory, for the flicker (1/f) noise amplitude, is formulated for random resistor networks. Close to the percolation threshold pc, the magnitude of the noise is shown to diverge as (p pc)-03BA, with 03BA = 1 for both site and bond percolation models. The exponent 03BA is also calculated in the framework of two different renormalization group transformations. The possible...

Motivated by synchronization problems in noisy environments, we study the Edwards-Wilkinson process on weighted uncorrelated scale-free networks. We consider a specific form of the weights, where the strength (and the associated cost) of a link is proportional to (kikj)beta with ki and kj being the degrees of the nodes connected by the link. Subject to the constraint that the total edge cost is...

We study the current flow paths between two edges in a random resistor network on a L X L square lattice. Each resistor has resistance e(ax) , where x is a uniformly distributed random variable and a controls the broadness of the distribution. We find that: (a) The scaled variable u identical with u congruent to L/a(nu) , where nu is the percolation connectedness exponent, fully determines the ...

A new chaotic circuit is practically realized, for the first time, using a Lambert W-function. The circuit consists of three main parts. The first part employs a well-known Wilson current mirror, whereas the second part is a simple resistor at the two connected emitters of the current mirror. Both parts form a new circuit for a Lambert W-function by enabling a term of an emitter current to be s...