Generating Chaos with Saddle-Focus Homoclinic Orbit

Abstract

This paper develops an anticontrol approach to design a 3D continuous-time autonomous chaotic system with saddle-focus homoclinic orbit, based on two chaotification criterions for all orbits to be globally bounded with positive Lyapunov exponents. By using the Shil’nikov theorem, a Poincaré return map near the origin is found in the designed controlled system, confirming the existence of chaos in sense of the Smale horseshoe.