A memristor-based time-delay chaotic systems and pseudo-random sequence generator

Memristor, a controllable nonlinear element, is easy to generate a chaotic signal. More significantly, it can improve the complexity of the chaotic system and the randomness of signals. Although the memristor chaotic system is a hot spot of research currently, little attention has been paid to the memristive time-delayed chaotic system. Therefore, a new memristor-based time-delayed chaotic system is proposed in this paper. We construct the time-delayed chaotic system with single delay time by using the nonlinear relationship between the memristance and charge of memristor. The existence of time delay enhances the complexity of chaotic system, which makes the system produce richer and more complex dynamics. In order to study the complex dynamic characteristics of this memristive time-delayed system, we investigate the proposed system by theoretical derivation, numerical simulation, stabilization of equilibrium points, and power spectrum. In addition, the corresponding parameter region of the stable equilibrium point of the system is discussed in detail. Then, we discuss the effect of parameter variation on the dynamic behavior of the system, and a series of phase diagrams with different time-delayed parameters and system parameters is described by numerical simulation. We find that different combinations of parameters and slight changes of parameters can make the system a completely different phase diagram, which indicates that the proposed system has rich nonlinear characteristic. Moreover, the proposed time-delayed system is used to generate pseudo random sequences, and the experimental results show that the proposed system has good self-correlation, cross-correlation, and the significant approximate entropy. According to the theoretical analyses and experimental results, we conclude that the proposed new time-delayed chaotic system has complex dynamic behavior and good randomness, which can meet the needs of the applications in spread spectrum communication, image encryption and many other fields. This research provides a significant reference for further studying the usage of memristor.