GLOBAL CHAOS CONTROL OF NON-AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS

This study describes a global approach of controlling chaos to reduce tedious waiting time caused by using conventional local controllers. With Euler's method, a non-autonomous system is approximated by a non-linear difference system and then an approximate global Poincaré map function is derived from the difference system by iterating one or more periods of a periodic excitation. Based on the map function, unstable periodic orbits embedded in a chaotic motion can be detected and a global controller for a targeted unstable periodic orbit is designed. The global controller makes all the unstable periodic orbits vanish except a targeted periodic orbit. Furthermore, a Lyapunov's direct method is applied to confirm that the global controller can asymptotically stabilize the unique periodic orbit. For practical applications, system models are usually unknown. To obtain a mathematical model, non-linear system identification based on the harmonic balance principle is applied to an unknown chaotic system of a noisy environment. Simulation results demonstrate that the global controller successfully regularizes a chaotic motion even if the chaotic trajectory is far from the targeted periodic orbit.