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HARMONIC BALANCE APPROACH TO PREDICT PERIOD-DOUBLING BIFURCATIONS IN NEARLY SYMMETRIC CNNs

2003; World Scientific; Volume: 12; Issue: 04 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1142/s0218126603000969

1793-6454

Mauro Di Marco, Mauro Forti, A. Tesi,

Nonlinear Dynamics and Pattern Formation

This paper further investigates a basic issue that has received attention in the recent literature, namely, the robustness of complete stability of standard Cellular Neural Networks (CNNs) with respect to small perturbations of the nominal symmetric interconnections. More specifically, a class of third-order CNNs with a nominal symmetric interconnection matrix is considered, and the Harmonic Balance (HB) method is exploited for addressing the possible existence of period-doubling bifurcations, and complex dynamics, for small perturbations of the nominal interconnections. The main result is that there are indeed parameter sets close to symmetry for which period-doubling bifurcations are predicted by the HB method. Moreover, the predictions are found to be reliable and accurate by means of computer simulations.