New walking dynamics in the simplest passive bipedal walking model

This paper revisits the simplest passive walking model by Garcia et al. which displays chaos through period doubling from a stable period-1 gait. By carefully numerical studies, two new gaits with period-3 and -4 are found, whose stability is verified by estimates of eigenvalues of the corresponding Jacobian matrices. A surprising phenomenon uncovered here is that they both lead to higher periodic cycles and chaos via period doubling. To study the three different types of chaotic gaits rigorously, the existence of horseshoes is verified and estimates of the topological entropies are made by computer-assisted proofs in terms of topological horseshoe theory.     

Dynamics of a small vibro-impact pile driver

A mathematical model is developed to study periodic-impact motions and bifurcations in dynamics of a small vibro-impact pile driver. Dynamics of the small vibro-impact pile driver can be analyzed by means of a three-dimensional map, which describes free flight and sticking solutions of the vibro-impact system, between impacts, supplemented by transition conditions at the instants of impacts. Piecewise property and singularity are found to exist in the Poincaré map. The piecewise property is caused by the transitions of free flight and sticking motions of the driver and the pile immediately after the impact, and the singularity of map is generated via the grazing contact of the driver and the pile immediately before the impact. These properties of the map have been shown to exhibit particular types of sliding and grazing bifurcations of periodic-impact motions under parameter variation. The influence of piecewise property, grazing singularities and parameter variation on the performance of the vibro-impact pile driver is analyzed. The global bifurcation diagrams for the impact velocity of the driver versus the forcing frequency are plotted to predict much of the qualitative behavior of the actual physical system, which enable the practicing engineer to select excitation frequency ranges in which stable period one single-impact response can be expected to occur, and to predict the larger impact velocity and shorter impact period of such response.     

Chaos and chaos synchronization for a non-autonomous rotational machine systems

Chaos and chaos synchronization of the centrifugal flywheel governor system are studied in this paper. By mechanics analyzing, the dynamical equation of the centrifugal flywheel governor system is established. Because of the non-linear terms of the system, the system exhibits both regular and chaotic motions. The characteristic of chaotic attractors of the system is presented by the phase portraits and power spectra. The evolution from Hopf bifurcation to chaos is shown by the bifurcation diagrams and a series of Poincaré sections under different sets of system parameters, and the bifurcation diagrams are verified by the related Lyapunov exponent spectra. This letter addresses control for the chaos synchronization of feedback control laws in two coupled non-autonomous chaotic systems with three different coupling terms, which is demonstrated and verified by Lyapunov exponent spectra and phase portraits. Finally, numerical simulations are presented to show the effectiveness of the proposed chaos synchronization scheme.     

Fraction auctions: The tradeoff between efficiency and running time

This paper studies the sales of a single indivisible object where bidders have continuous valuations. In Grigorieva et al. [14] it was shown that, in this setting, query auctions necessarily allocate inefficiently in equilibrium. In this paper we propose a new sequential auction, called the c-fraction auction. We show the existence of an ex-post equilibrium, called bluff equilibrium, in which bidders behave truthfully except for particular constellations of observed bids at which it is optimal to pretend a slightly higher valuation. We show c-fraction auctions guarantee approximate efficiency at any desired level of accuracy, independent of the number of bidders, when bidders choose to play the bluff equilibrium. We discuss the running time and the efficiency in the bluff equilibrium. We show that by changing the parameter c of the auction we can trade off efficiency against running time.     

Passive aerodynamics control of plasma instabilities

The possibility of using a smart-damping scheme to modify the dynamic responses of plasma oscillations governed by a two-fluid model is considered. The passive aerodynamics control strategy is used to address this issue. The control efficiency is found by analyzing the conditions satisfied by the control gain parameters for which, the amplitude of oscillations is reduced both in the harmonic and chaotic states. In the regular state, the analytical stability analysis uses for linear oscillations the Routh-Hurwitz criterion while the Whittaker method and Floquet theory are utilized for nonlinear harmonic oscillations. The stability boundaries in the control gain parameter space is derived. The agreement between the analytical and numerical results is good. In the chaotic states, numerical simulations are used to perform quenching of chaotic oscillations for an appropriate set of control parameters.     

Transitivity and Chaos

Several different definitions of transitivity and their relationship are carefullydiscussed for general spaces, and it is proved that a continuous map on a metric space ischaotic in the sense of Devaney if and only if it is periodic orbit transitive or periodic orbitstrongly transitive.     

Covering relations for multidimensional dynamical systems

We present a topological technique for analyzing dynamical systems with complex behavior, based on the general notion of covering relations. Our method can be used to study multidimensional dynamical systems with an arbitrary number of ‘topologically’ expanding directions.     

Dynamics of Leslie–Gower type generalist predator in a tri-trophic food web system

In this paper, the dynamics of a tri-trophic food web system consists of Leslie–Gower type generalist predator has been explored. The system is bounded under certain conditions. The Hopf-bifurcation has been established in the phase planes. The bifurcation diagrams exhibit coexistence of all three species in the form of periodic/chaotic solutions. The “snail-shell” chaotic attractor has very high Lyapunov exponents. The coexistence in the form of stable equilibrium is also possible for lower values of parameters. The two-parameter bifurcation diagrams are drawn for critical parameters.     

Impulsive stabilization of complex-valued stochastic complex networks via periodic self-triggered intermittent control

The aim of this article is to research the stabilization issue of complex-valued stochastic Markovian switching complex networks with time delays and time-varying multi-links (CSMCTM) via periodic self-triggered intermittent impulsive control (PSIIC). Thereinto, PSIIC is designed for the first time by combining intermittent impulsive control with periodic self-triggered control for intermittent control. It is worth emphasizing that the triggered protocol is designed to be more flexible, and easier to implement than previously reported triggered protocol. Then, by means of impulsive control, intermittent control, event-driven control theory and stability analysis, a stabilization criterion of CSMCTM in the sense of exponential stability in mean square is obtained. Whereafter, the stability of a class of complex-valued inertial neural networks is researched as a practical application of our theoretical results. Ultimately, a numerical example gives a corresponding verification.     

High-order accurate monotone compact running scheme for multidimensional hyperbolic equations

Monotone absolutely stable conservative difference schemes intended for solving quasilinear multidimensional hyperbolic equations are described. For sufficiently smooth solutions, the schemes are fourth-order accurate in each spatial direction and can be used in a wide range of local Courant numbers. The order of accuracy in time varies from the third for the smooth parts of the solution to the first near discontinuities. This is achieved by choosing special weighting coefficients that depend locally on the solution. The presented schemes are numerically efficient thanks to the simple two-diagonal (or block two-diagonal) structure of the matrix to be inverted. First the schemes are applied to system of nonlinear multidimensional conservation laws. The choice of optimal weighting coefficients for the schemes of variable order of accuracy in time and flux splitting is discussed in detail. The capabilities of the schemes are demonstrated by computing well-known two-dimensional Riemann problems for gasdynamic equations with a complex shock wave structure.     

Comparison of One-dimensional Composite and Non-composite Passive Algorithms

In this paper we analyze composite non-adaptive algorithms for optimization of one-dimensional Brownian motion. We show that a composite deterministic algorithm has a better average performance than the best random one.     

Dynamical behaviors of a prey-predator system with impulsive control

In this paper, we study dynamics of a prey-predator system under the impulsive control. Sufficient conditions of the existence and the stability of semi-trivial periodic solutions are obtained by using the analogue of the Poincaré criterion. It is shown that the positive periodic solution bifurcates from the semi-trivial periodic solution through a transcritical bifurcation. A strategy of impulsive state feedback control is suggested to ensure the persistence of two species. Furthermore, a steady positive period-2 solution bifurcates from the positive periodic solution by the flip bifurcation, and the chaotic solution is generated via a cascade of flip bifurcations. Numerical simulations are also illustrated which agree well with our theoretical analysis.     

Finite-time stability and stabilization of nonlinear stochastic hybrid systems

This paper deals with the problem of finite-time stability and stabilization of nonlinear Markovian switching stochastic systems which exist impulses at the switching instants. Using multiple Lyapunov function theory, a sufficient condition is established for finite-time stability of the underlying systems. Furthermore, based on the state partition of continuous parts of systems, a feedback controller is designed such that the corresponding impulsive stochastic closed-loop systems are finite-time stochastically stable. A numerical example is presented to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.     

Controllability and stabilization of periodic switched Boolean control networks with application to asynchronous updating

This paper investigates the periodic switching point controllability and stabilization of periodic switched Boolean control networks (PSBCNs), and applies the obtained results to the stabilization of deterministic asynchronous Boolean control networks (DABCNs). Firstly, using the algebraic state space representation of PSBCNs, a kind of periodic switching point controllability matrix is constructed, based on which, a necessary and sufficient condition is presented for the periodic switching point reachability and controllability of PSBCNs. Secondly, using the reachable set of PSBCNs, a constructive procedure is proposed to design time-variant state feedback controllers for the periodic switching point stabilization of PSBCNs. Finally, by converting the dynamics of DABCNs into the form of PSBCNs, the time-variant state feedback stabilization problem of DABCNs is solved.     

Existence of periodic orbits and chaos in a class of three-dimensional piecewise linear systems with two virtual stable node-foci

In this paper, we consider a new class of piecewise linear (PWL) systems with two virtual stable node-foci (the meaning of “virtual” is from Bernardo et al. (2008)) which exhibits periodic orbits and chaos. This fact that PWL systems have no unstable equilibria but has chaos will unavoidably make the exploration of this chaos more complicated. Particular values for bifurcation diagram are provided. Based on mathematical analysis and Poincaré map, periodic orbits of this kind of system without unstable equilibrium points are derived, the corresponding existence theorems are given, and the obtained results are applied to specific examples.     

Hopf-flip bifurcations of vibratory systems with impacts

Two vibro-impact systems are considered. The period n single-impact motions and Poincaré maps of the vibro-impact systems are derived analytically. Stability and local bifurcations of single-impact periodic motions are analyzed by using the Poincaré maps. A center manifold theorem technique is applied to reduce the Poincaré map to a three-dimensional one, and the normal form map associated with Hopf-flip bifurcation is obtained. It is found that near the point of codim 2 bifurcation there exists not only Hopf bifurcation of period one single-impact motion, but also Hopf bifurcation of period two double-impact motion. Period doubling bifurcation of period one single-impact motion is commonly existent near the point of codim 2 bifurcation. However, no period doubling cascade emerges due to change of the type of period two fixed points and occurrence of Hopf bifurcation associated with period two fixed points. The results from simulation shows that there exists an interest torus doubling bifurcation occurring near the value of Hopf-flip bifurcation. The torus doubling bifurcation makes the quasi-periodic attractor associated with period one single-impact motion transit to the other quasi-periodic attractor represented by two attracting closed circles. The torus bifurcation is qualitatively different from the typical torus doubling bifurcation occurring in the vibro-impact systems.     

On stochastic and chaotic motion

In this paper we prove results regarding certain precise relationships between random motion and chaotic motion. In particular we prove a strong invariance principle for smooth functions of certain chaotic dynamical systems, and show that solutions of dynamical systems which are coupled to such chaotic systems may be approximated by solutions of stochastic differential equations     

Nonlinear-map model for bus schedule in capacity-controlled transportation

We study the schedule of shuttle buses in the transportation system controlled by capacity. The bus schedule is closely related to the dynamic motion of buses. We present the nonlinear-map model for the dynamics of shuttle buses. The motion of shuttle buses depends on the inflow rate. The dependence of the fixed points on the inflow is derived. The dynamic transitions occur with increasing the value of inflow rate. At the dynamic transition point, the motion of buses changes from a stable state to an unstable state and vice versa. The shuttle buses display periodic, quasi-periodic, and chaotic motions in the unstable state. In the unstable state, the number of riding passengers fluctuates complexly with varying trips. The bus schedule is governed by the complex motion of buses.