Passive–active integrators chaotic oscillator with anti-parallel diodes: analysis and its chaos-based encryption application to protect electrocardiogram signals

An autonomous passive–active integrators oscillator with anti-parallel diodes is proposed and analysed in this paper. It consists of anti-parallel diodes and two main blocks: A second-order passive RLC integrator and a first-order active RC integrator. The existence of two Hopf bifurcations is established during the stability analysis of the unique equilibrium point. For a suitable choice of the circuit parameters, the proposed oscillator can generate periodic oscillations, one-scroll, bistable chaotic attractors and antimonotonicity. The electronic circuit realization of the proposed oscillator is carried out to confirm results found during the numerical simulations. A good qualitative agreement is illustrated between the numerical simulations and experimental results. In addition, chaos-based encryption application to protect electrocardiogram (ECG) signals for secure transmission of medical information is performed using the proposed oscillator in chaotic regime. The ECG signals are successfully encrypted and the original ECG signal is successfully decrypted from noisy ECG signals.