Recent Advances in Chaotic Systems and Synchronization

Olfa Boubaker is a Full Professor at the National Institute of Applied Sciences and Technology (INSAT) at the University of Carthage, Tunisia. Her research spans control theory, nonlinear systems, and robotics, with a focus on healthcare applications and human-centered technologies. She received her PhD in Electrical Engineering from the National Engineering School of Tunis (ENIT) and Habilitation Universitaire degree in Control Engineering from the National Engineering School of Sfax (ENIS), in Tunisia. Professor Boubaker leads interdisciplinary research projects at the interface of medicine and technology and serves as Series Editor of Medical Robots and Devices: New Developments and Advances. She has authored over 150 peer-reviewed papers and several books, and is an Associate Editor for Robotica and the International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems. She also contributes to various scientific journals and mentors numerous engineering graduates. Sajad Jafari was born in Kermanshah, Iran, in 1983. He received his BSc., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in biomedical engineering in 2005, 2008, 2013 from biomedical engineering department, Amirkabir University of technology, Tehran, Iran. He is currently an Assistant Professor in there (since 2013). His research interests include artificial intelligence, optimization, pattern recognition and especially nonlinear and chaotic signals and systems. Dr Sajad Jafari is closely associated with several reputable international journals as a reviewer and he is the author/coauthor of more than 100 peer-reviewed papers.

• Part I. New Chaotic Systems: Design and Analysis 1. Experimental observations and circuit realization of a jerk chaotic system with piecewise nonlinear function2. Analytical, numerical and experimental analysis of a RC chaotic circuit with diodes in anti-parallel3. Chaos in a system with parabolic equilibrium4. A new four-dimensional chaotic system with no equilibrium point5. A new five-dimensional multi-stable chaotic system with hidden attractors6. Extreme Multistability in a Hyperjerk Memristive System with Hidden Attractors7. Parameter estimation in a new chaotic system by the help of GMM based cost functionPart II. Real World Applications8. Virtualization of Chua's circuit state space9. Some new chaotic maps with engineering applications10. Chaotic solutions in a forced two-dimensional Hindmarsh-Rose neuron11. Period-Doubling bifurcation and Chaos in a new algebraic structure of predator-prey BB-model12. Chaotic path planning for a two-link flexible manipulator using composite control techniquesPart III. New trends in Chaos Synchronization 13. Robust Synchronization of Master Slave Chaotic Systems: A Continuous Sliding-Mode Control Approach with Experimental Study14. A four-dimensional chaotic system with one and without equilibrium points: dynamical analysis and its application to text encryption15. FPGA implementation of chaotic oscillators, their synchronization and application to secure communications16. On discrete-time hyperchaotic systems synchronization: Toward secure image transmission17. Fractional-Order Hybrid Synchronization for Multiple Hyperchaotic Systems