Identification of the Belousov-Zhabotinsky Reaction using the Cellular Automata Models

New methods of identifying the transition rule of a Belousov–Zhabotinskii (BZ) reaction directly from experimental data using cellular automata (CA) models are investigated. The experimental set-up and new techniques for image pre-processing to ensure the identification of representative models are discussed including noise reduction, pixel and color calibration. Two kinds of models, the Greenberg–Hasting model (GHM) and the polynomial CA model are studied in detail. It is shown that the results of identifying a real BZ reacting system are very encouraging and the predicted patterns compare well with the imaged patterns both visually and quantitatively