Generating novel multi-scroll chaotic attractors via fractal transformation

Abstract The fractal and chaos are bound tightly, and their relevant researches are well-established. Few of them, however, concentrates on the research of the possibility of combining the fractal and the chaotic systems to generate multi-scroll chaotic attractors. This paper presents a novel non-equilibrium point chaotic system, exhibiting extremely rich and complex hidden behaviors including chaos, hyper-chaos, multi-scroll attractors, extreme multi-stability and initial offset-boosting. The proposed system is combined with fractal transformation respectively, and a new class of multi-scroll attractors, such as multi-ring attractors and separated-scroll attractors, is observed. Particularly, swallow-shaped attractors for the first time is found. Moreover, another efficient method to generate a different class of chaotic attractors uses parabola transformation and triangle transformation. Additionally, the spectrum entropy ( SE ) complexity is employed to discuss the complexity of the proposed system before and after fractal, resulting in a chaotic sequences with fractal transformation that has higher complexity. Finally, we develop a hardware platform to implement the presented attractors before and after fractal in a way to confirm the accuracy of the numerical simulations, providing a theoretical basis for the next application in image encryption.