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Weak signal detection method based on Duffing oscillator Junguo Wang, Jianzhong Zhou and Bing Peng College of Hydropower and Information Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China Abstract Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to detect the periodic signal under strong noise background, and estimate its amplitude/phase. Design/methodology/approach – Melnikov method is adopted as calculating the threshold value when chaos occurs, and the detected signal is taken as a system parameter. The system’s output state is changed if the parameter has a slight change near the threshold. Meantime, the phase of system’s output is recognized to judge whether the output state changes, and the signal parameter is estimated according to the necessary condition. Findings – A small periodic signal in noise can be detected by Duffing oscillator via a transition from chaotic motion to periodic motion. Research limitations/implications – The paper shows how to calculate the amplitude/phase in low signal-to-noise ratios. Practical implications – The Duffing system is sensitive to the weak periodic signal and has definite immunity to noise, so it is easy to construct a system composed of many oscillators that could process complex signals, even though the environmental noise is intense. Originality/value – This paper presents a nonlinear method for detecting and extracting the weak signal. Keywords Signal processing, Cybernetics, Signal detection Paper type Research paper 1. Introduction The periodic signal detection under the strong background noise is one of the basic issues in the fields of signal detection and signal processing, and it is tensively utilized in the fields, such as the information inception in communication engineering, radar information detection, condition monitoring, and fault diagnosis (Li and Yang, 2003; Yang et al., 1995; Ehara et al., 1994; Hu and Wen, 2003). Traditional approaches for detecting the weak signal are to denoise on the