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We study the dynamics of a ring of unidirectionally coupled autonomous
Duffing oscillators. Starting from a situation where the individual
oscillator without coupling has only trivial equilibrium dynamics,
the coupling induces complicated transitions to periodic, quasiperiodic,
chaotic, and hyperchaotic behavior. We study these transitions in
detail for small and large numbers of oscillators. Particular attention
is paid to the role of unstable periodic solutions for the appearance
of chaotic rotating waves, spatiotemporal structures and the Eckhaus
effect for a large number of oscillators. Our analytical and numerical
results are confirmed by a simple experiment based on the electronic
implementation of coupled Duffing oscillators.