Stroboscopic control and tracking of periodic states

Abstract

Numerical continuation tools are nowadays standard methods for the bifurcation analysis of dynamical systems. Unfortunately, the full power of these methods is still unavailable in experiments, in particular, if no underlying mathematical model is at hand. We here aim to narrow this gap by providing control based continuation of periodic states which can be ultimately implemented in real-world experimental set-ups. Taking inspiration from atomic force microscopy, we develop experimentally relevant control and tracking tools for time periodic solutions in driven nonlinear oscillator systems based on stroboscopic maps.