On feedback control of chaotic continuous-time systems

Extends the ideas and techniques developed previously by the present authors for controlling discrete-time chaotic dynamic systems using traditional feedback control strategies to continuous-time chaotic systems. The authors study how the conventional engineering approach using canonical feedback controllers can control the chaotic trajectory of a continuous-time nonlinear system to converge to its equilibrium points and, more significantly, to its multiperiodic orbits including unstable limit cycles. They describe an approach via a detailed investigation of the chaotic Duffing equation, with special emphasis on the control of its chaotic trajectory to one of its multiperiodic orbits. Finally, the authors provide a rigorous mathematical theory and some computer simulations to support and visualize such controllability of the Duffing equation.< <ETX xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">&gt;</ETX>