We study some dynamical features of certain coupled cell networks that consist of two (unidirectional or bidirectional) rings of cells coupled through a 'buffer' cell. Depending on how the rings and the buffer cell are coupled, the full network may have a non-trivial group of symmetries or a non-trivial group of 'interior' symmetries. This group is ZpxZq in the unidirectional case and DpxDq in the bidirectional case. We are interested in finding quasi-periodic motion in these networks, motivated by an example presented by Golubitsky, Nicol and Stewart (Some curious phenomena in coupled cell systems, J Nonlinear Sci 2004;14(2):207-36). In the examples considered here, we obtain quasi-periodic states through a sequence of Hopf bifurcations. Interestingly, we observe relaxation oscillation phenomena appearing further away from the last Hopf bifurcation point. We use
XPPAUT and MATLAB to compute numerically the relevant states. Joint work with Fernando Antoneli and Ana Dias.