Desynchronization of coupled oscillators using chaos

Abstract

A technique for desynchronization of a network of FitzHugh-Nagumo type mean-field coupled spiking neurons is described. The coupled network is externally driven from a chaotic oscillator via the coupling node. Chaotic waveform resets the phase of the mean field and thus effectively decouples the individual oscillators. Hardware experiments have been performed using an electrical circuit consisting of three nonidentical FitzHugh-Nagumo oscillators.