Experimental Stabilization of Unstable Periodic Orbit in Magneto-elastic Chaos by Delayed Feedback Control

In our previous paper, it was confirmed that the unstable periodic orbit embedded in the chaotic attractor in magneto-elastic beam system can be stabilized by delayed feedback control experimentally. It seems an advantage that the control method does not require any exact model of the system. However, the application of the control raises the problem that we cannot predict the stabilized unstable periodic orbit until it converges. In this paper, an “onset window” is introduced to determine the onset timing for targeting the desired orbit embedded in the chaotic attractor experimentally. Moreover, the dependence of the stabilization on the delay and the gain parameters is also discussed based on the experimental results.