A unified Lorenz-type system and its canonical form

Based on the generalized Lorenz system, a conjugate Lorenz-type system is introduced, and a new unified Lorenz-type system containing these two classes of systems is naturally constructed in the paper. Such a unified system is state-equivalent to a simple special form, which is parameterized by two parameters useful for chaos turning and system classification. More importantly, based on the parameterized form, three new chaotic attractors, called conjugate attractors, are found for the first time, which are conjugate to the Lorenz attractor, the Chen attractor, and the Lü attractor, respectively. © World Scientific Publishing Company.