Desktop chaotic systems : Intuition and visualization
- Author:
- Hartley, Tom T.
- Published:
- Jul 1, 1993.
- Physical Description:
- 1 electronic document
- Additional Creators:
- Bright, Michelle M., Qammar, Helen K., and Melcher, Kevin J.
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- This paper presents a dynamic study of the Wildwood Pendulum, a commercially available desktop system which exhibits a strange attractor. The purpose of studying this chaotic pendulum is twofold: to gain insight in the paradigmatic approach of modeling, simulating, and determining chaos in nonlinear systems; and to provide a desktop model of chaos as a visual tool. For this study, the nonlinear behavior of this chaotic pendulum is modeled, a computer simulation is performed, and an experimental performance is measured. An assessment of the pendulum in the phase plane shows the strange attractor. Through the use of a box-assisted correlation dimension methodology, the attractor dimension is determined for both the model and the experimental pendulum systems. Correlation dimension results indicate that the pendulum and the model are chaotic and their fractal dimensions are similar.
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- NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) Collection.
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- Document ID: 19930022658.
Accession ID: 93N31847.
NAS 1.15:106258.
E-7983.
NASA-TM-106258.
SPIE International Symposium on Chaos/Nonlinear Dynamics; 11-16 Jul. 1993; San Diego, CA; United States. - Terms of Use and Reproduction:
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