15th Triennial World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control
  Barcelona, 21–26 July 2002 
BIFURCATION TAILORING OF NONLINEAR SYSTEMS
Xiao Fan Wang1,2,3, M. Di Bernardo2, M. H. Lowenberg1, D. P. Stoten3, G. Charles1,2,3
1 Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Bristol, Bristol, BS8 1TR, UK
2 Department of Engineering Mathematics, University of Bristol, Bristol, BS8 1TR, UK
3 Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Bristol, Bristol, BS8 1TR, UK

We discuss a novel approach to control bifurcations in nonlinear systems. The aim of bifurcation tailoring is to design an appropriate control law such that the controlled system has a desired bifurcation diagram. After describing two open-loop bifurcation tailoring techniques, this paper proposes two alternative modified bifurcation tailoring methods based on the use of the Newton-flow algorithm and the so-called Minimal Control Synthesis adaptive control strategy. The novel technique is applied to the Duffing system as an illustration example.
Keywords: Bifurcation; Open-loop control; Adaptive control; Nonlinear system
Session slot T-We-A21: Posters of Nonlinear Systems/Area code 2c : Non-linear Systems