Method and Apparatus for Signal Generation and Detection Using Unstable Periodic Chaotic Orbits

Abstract

A signal generator and signal receiver, as well as methods of signal generation and transmission, in which selected unstable periodic orbits of a lossy chaotic system are identified and extracted, and portions of the orbits concatenated together to form a resultant signal. The selected orbits are known to the signal detector a priori, which uses this knowledge to detect the signal, e.g. by correlation of the signal with the known extracted orbits. By detecting this signal, the detector can also identify information which the generator imposed onto the signal, e.g. which attractor the chaotic system was in, or inversion/non-inversion of the signal, and thus function as a communication system. Such a system is inherently spread spectrum, and inherently has a higher signal to noise ratio than other communication systems based on chaotic signals.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 06, 1999
Accession Number
ADD019734

Entities

People

  • Thomas L. Carroll

Organizations

  • United States Department of the Navy

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Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

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  • Analog Computers
  • Attorneys
  • Communication Systems
  • Computers
  • Cross Correlation
  • Detection
  • Detectors
  • Electronic Amplifier
  • Generators
  • Inventions
  • Modulators
  • Patent Applications
  • Patents
  • Reliability
  • Signal Generation
  • Signal Generators
  • Spread Spectrum

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

Readers

  • Acoustical Oceanography.
  • Adaptive Control and Estimation with Uncertainty in Dynamic Systems.
  • Wave Propagation and Nonlinear Chaotic Dynamics.

Technology Areas

  • Space
  • Space - Orbital Debris
  • Space - Space Objects