This paper presents a new 4D chaotic system by extending a 3D system to investigate chaotic systems2 with hidden attractors further and explore their engineering applications in color image encryption. The system has hyperbolic shape equilibriums and the equilibriums are nonhyperbolic which is interesting and rarely mentioned before. The system has been investigated deeply by phase plot, time series, the largest Lyapunov exponent, bifurcation diagram, Poincaré map and 0–1 test. A coexisting hidden attractor has been found in this new system and the circuit simulation model of the system is built by Power Simulation (PSIM). Circuit simulation results are consistent with results of numerical simulations which verify its dynamic behavior further. Then, by combining the generalized Arnold transform with the new chaotic system, a new color image encryption algorithm has been proposed which has large key space and can encrypt either square images or nonsquare images with different size. Finally, the results of encryption experiment and security analysis prove the effectiveness of the algorithm.

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In this paper, a new commensurate fractional-order chaotic oscillator is presented. The mathematical model with a weak feedback term, which is named hypogenetic flow, is proposed based on the Liu system. And with changing the parameters of the system, the hidden attractor can have no equilibrium points or line equilibrium. What is more interesting is that under the occasion that no equilibrium point can be obtained, the phase trajectory can converge to a minimal field under the lead of some initial conditions, similar to the fixed point. We call it the virtual equilibrium point. On the other hand, when the value of parameters can produce an infinite number of equilibrium points, the line equilibrium points are nonhyperbolic. Moreover than that, there are coexistence attractors, which can present hyperchaos, chaos, period, and virtual equilibrium point. The dynamic characteristics of the system are analyzed, and the parameter estimation is also studied. Then, an electronic circuit implementation of the system is built, which shows the feasibility of the system. At last, for the fractional system with hidden attractors, the finite-time synchronization control of the system is carried out based on the finite-time stability theory of the fractional system. And the effectiveness of the controller is verified by numerical simulation.

In this paper, we proposed a new nonlinear chaotic oscillator. The model of the system is given through a predefined form. Its unique property lies in the circle-shaped equilibrium. Both analysis and simulations are presented. In particular, the stability of the neighbourhood of the equilibrium point is analysed in terms of theoretical derivation and dynamic behaviour. Moreover than that, a robust control method of a category of three-dimensional chaotic systems is designed. And the final simulation results proved the effectiveness of the controllers.